Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think we are not clearly defining what art is in the photographic field. Art no necesarily implies effort. Someone could argue in that aspect that a picture taken with a 1898 kodak model would be more artistic than the same image taken with the EOS 3. He would definetely be in the wrong way. Art implies the most solid union between an instant and a performer. The means by which this union is achieved are not essential to the spirit of art. Many people deny the value of Doisneau work saying that they were arranged photos. There was a moment when that composition exited first in the mind of the artist and then he brought into reality. HCB was someday outside St. Lazare gate. He saw a puddle, he saw a ladder and he conceived a photo. It doesn't really matter if that moment of conception was separated by two seconds or two years from the "real" moment. As he says, the only instant that matters is the 1/125 f;8. And nothing else. Let's take photos! Leically Carlos