Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John Brownlow wrote >I just find it hard to imagine that >landscape, still life, portraiture and consensual documentary are going to >be more than 50% of anyone's greatest hits. Wow. You either have a limited imagination, an amazing knowledge of the members of the human race or wrote that without thinking (which I confess to being guilty of on more than one occasion). Non-consensual documentary makes up a small proportion of the images (still or moving) that have affected me strongly in one way or another (not wishing to use the words 'greatest hits'). Maybe I'm speaking as a rank outsider; I hope not. I make documentary films, and unless deliberately trying to do someone harm (very rare), all are entirely consensual. Just because that is how I wish to be. I probably wouldn't make it into JB's top 10,000,000,000 greatest hits, but I might. Who knows? BTW Which of your category boxes would you put Raymond Moore into? He opened my eyes to the power of photography so much that I almost stopped painting. With best wishes, each to their own, be good to yourselves, Malcolm