Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Donal: Dickens was much more like John Irving than Elmore Leonard. You can be both popular and exceptional. tom >Of course, no one today except a few scholars know the names of the >critically aclaimed authors, but the one that published cheap stories in >the popular press about real issues of personal and social concerns is >still celebrated today. > >Charles Dickens. > >I think all the art for art critics is fine. It will eventually drop >into the wastebin of time when there is no one left to have intellectual >appreciation. But the art which springs from the depth of human >experience, which touches universal pain, joy, hope, dispair, love, >ambition, peace and more will live and move new generations precisely >because it expresses those common truths that cross time and culture. > >Certainly Leicas (to stay on topic) have been used to make more of such >photos than any other. > >donal >__________ >Donal Philby >San Diego >www.donalphilby.com Thomas Kachadurian - ------------------- www.kachadurian.com