Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]IMO photography is a means of communication - which mathematics etc. are not. If you cannot communicate with your images and with your intended audience you have not succeeded. Crap? Eggleston, Sherman etc. have a following, they obviously are able to communicate with some people, but not all - of course. But many "artists" state that they do not care about audience, they just do it for themselves - so they must be happy - but the aim is not very high. A true artist can photograph the most banal, ordinary thing and with it touch a LARGE number of people - experts and lay people alike. This is the challenge. Just my 0.02 Euros worth. All the best! Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net> Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Päivä: 16. helmikuuta 2000 12:20 Aihe: [Leica] Crap-o-la >>>>"Inaccessible" is, in this case, a synonym for "crap."<<< > > >In which case, astrophysics and higher mathematics are crap. Not to >mention Japanese calligraphy, and Latin. Economics is certainly crap! >Kant has got to be crap. St. Augustine? Crap-o-la. > >Just because 99/100ths of all the photography presented in the world >panders to the public's conceit of instant and automatic accessibility >doesn't mean that it all has to be that way. Not everything is easy to >get. > >Keep looking. > >--Mike >