Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net> writes: >maybe the point is documentation. to capture on film the way life is being >lived by the inhabitants of a given place at a given time, all going about >their business as they normally do, unaware for the most part that they are >being recorded on film. Did anyone see the movie Smoke? One of the characters in the movie owned a smoke shop in New York City. I think the actor was Danny Aielo? Anyway, every day at the exact same time and from the same place he would go outside his store and take a single picture. Didn't matter what was in the picture. As soon as the time struck, he snapped it. He did this for many years, decades I think, and had several albums. Looking at the pictures you'd see the seasons change. Over a longer period of time you saw clothing and car style changes. Sometimes there is nothing but buildings in the shot. Sometimes a big crowd of people. At first impression it seems like a silly thing to do. But then when you are able to grasp the whole scope of it, it is quite moving. It is a good movie in general, well worth seeing. - -- Michael Bell MBell@mail.utexas.edu