Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>on 12/4/00 11:39 PM, Guy Bennett at guybnt@idt.net wrote: >> >> "i intend the act of photographic perception itself to be the subject of >> the photograph." >> >> guy > >Your post certainly said it well, Guy. As I mentioned earlier, Weston's >photos really hit me hard in a way that AA's work never did. This is a good >explanation why. I have always been fascinated by the picture of the toilet >in Mexico and had wondered why AA's rose did not affect me in the same way. > >Dean on a comical note, i was driving home from a meeting this afternoon, and on the lawn in front of somebody's house there stood an old toilet - they were obviously waiting for the trashman (or scavengers, more than likely) to come and pick it up. i had my camera with me and for one second contemplated pulling over and shooting one or two 'homages' to weston, but i let it go. little did i know that we'd be discussing him on the lug when i got home. to my knowledge, there are two famous modernist 'toilets': weston's and duchamp's (technically, a urinal but close enough for me). does anyone know of any others? guy