Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:40:45 +0100 From: "Tim Spragens" <t.spragens@cityweb.de> Subject: [Leica] Re: Political correctness Message-ID: <200007231141.NAA29579@bird.de.uu.net> References: Peter Choy passed on Sean Kernan's > The story is told that when Mondrian was young he did some paintings > over his old canvases. When a friend pointed out that he was wasting > perfectly saleable canvases, he said, "I'm not trying to make > paintings, I'm trying to find things out." Wonderful story! I can't find the reference right now, but one photographer had in a signature a quote, I think it was from one of the WPA photographers, that working with a camera was learning to see. If anyone has the proper quote and attribute, I'd appreciate having it. ------------------------------ Tim, I'm not familiar with the quote you refer to, but I seem to recall that Gary Winogrand made a similar remark, to the effect that the reason he took pictures was to "find out what things looked like". Rgds, Peter.