Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]roy, no, not everyone can play jazz. the same as your quote from Davis, 'Gee, there's a great scene, but there's no picture there'. It's a very few people who don't take the picture. why? because they haven't practised enough. I compare this to the 'broken clock is right twice a day' saying. just because you made a good photogrph doesn't mean you knew how to do it. If you continue to make good photographs, then you approach what Jazz is to a musician. A culmination of years of hard work. I don't dismiss any type of photography. Photography is to invoke feelings in me. Any type of feeling. Street photography can do this also. Rob Mueller Studies in Black and White www.studiesinblackandwhite.com rob@studiesinblackandwhite.com - -----Original Message----- From: Roy Feldman [mailto:royfel@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 10:58 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Re: Rob /Johnny -street Jazz Rob- I find the comparison between street photography and jazz valid for the same points you made to dispute it. Any one can go out and make jazz but only a very few are paid for it and fewer still revered. I believe that street photography takes years of dedication and devotion, to deny this is to dismiss a large and important photographic genre. Compare Mr. Deadman's quote from Gerry Winograd to one of my favorites from Miles Davis when asked what makes a jazz musician great "Think of a note-now don't play it". ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com