Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry, I don't buy it. Sounds to me like Landor is consigning all those great still photos that have been made for the past hundred and fify years to the artistic scrap-heap. I wonder if he applies the same "rule" to paintings? A single painting of the model posiing is no good, you have to have paintings of the model walking into the room, then posing, and then leaving in order for it to be a valid representation of the experience. I know I'm going to get in trouble here like I did for dissing Sontag, because as an artistic philistine I have no idea who Landor is - but based on this quote a comment about his ability to discriminate effluent from shoe polish springs to mind. Paul >-----Original Message----- >From: Alan Hull [mailto:hull@telia.com] >Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 9:05 AM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Eddie Adams Photo/ Jim Nachtwey in Israel > > >To paraphrase Landor. A still photograph of a single moment in time is >like a single note in music that means nothing without the notes that >come before and the notes that come after. > >A movie sequence can be compared to a symphany. A still photograph to >a toot on a car horn. > >Paraphrase? More like a butchery. Sorry Landor. > >Alan > >---------- >> Från: Paul Chefurka >> Isn't that just because there was no "decisive moment" still photo of >the >> assassination? >