Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] art, manual focus & other misunderstanding
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 22:09:35 -0500

At 12:13 PM 5/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At best,
>the efforts would be shot down with a, "Here's another Doisneau copycat.
>Can't he do anything original?".

You have a very good point there. And yes, I think his pictures are very 
attractive. They make great posters for teenagers' walls. I think that that 
kind of photography is fine, for those who like it. I find it not true to 
the real essence of the nature of photography. Capturing life as the camera 
sees it. Not as someone constructs "idealistic" images. But that's just me.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

Never forget: 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.