Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, in your other posting you state that photojournalism is photography's highest standard (my wording, but I'm going from memory and I think I am getting your intent). I guess we just have differing opinions. I don't consider the photographs of Doisneau to be photojournalism, but that doesn't bother me in the slightest (I also don't place photojournalism above other photographic styles). I think Doisneau's prints are worthy of much more than prints for teensager's walls. I think they are worthy of prints for the Louvre's (sp?) walls. But, to each his own. Dan C. At 10:09 PM 05-05-99 -0500, you wrote: >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. > >