Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I tried to send this text a couple of hours ago, but it didn't come through (too long?). This time I don't send the text, just the URL: http://newdeal.feri.org/pn/pn139.htm A part from some obsolete techno optimism and a few other things out of time, this article from 1939 is still of actual interest. It gives an idea about what I consider being a reasonable starting-point for a new Photo League. Oddmund Garvik <<<<<<< Documentary Photography Elizabeth McCausland January 1939 1.The rise of documentary photography does not spring from fashion. Rather its rapid growth represents strong organic forces at work, strong creative impulses seeking an outlet suitable to the serious and tense spirit of our age. The proof that documentary photography is not a fad or a vogue lies in the history of other movements in photography. Before the documentary, the technical "capriccci" of Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray; before the "photogram" and the "rayograph," the Photo-Secession; before that, the pictorialists. What came of these? From the abstract and surrealist tendencies, Cecil Beaton. From the Photo-Secession a few fine workers like Paul Strand, Edward Weston and Charles Sheeler, the best of their mature energies being best employed when they turn to newer and more objective purposes. From the pictorial school, the Oval Table. (...) >>>>>>> ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif