Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] PHOTOGRAPHY IS SIMPLE >Eric Welch wrote: >> >> At 10:52 AM 5/3/99 -0700, you wrote: >> >We look past the reality that the concept of PHOTOGRAPHY IS SIMPLE. >> >> It most certainly is not. Photography on the hack level might be easy, but >> there isn't a camera that can make perfect exposures in any possible >> situation. So someone who wants to get beyond the snapshot (in the simple >> meaning of the term, not the genre that the art world has conjured up) has >> to work at it. snip > >PHOTOGRAPHY IS SIMPLE is a statement that could be in some contexts be >commendable but in most cases distortive. Many of us photographers may >have through low self esteem gotten into a field which would require >dumb easy diligence. >But we had to disenthrall ourselves from a simplistic tactic as we found >ourselves challenged. >Mark Rabiner >and then retire with our simple box camera .........low self esteem and requiring dumb easy diliigence? Either this is getting down and dirty or Mark's philosophy is over my head! jh