RE: [Leica] Critical discourse on photography

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

There was a great BBC programme with Hockney on this - very very interesting
(great stuff like famous paintings, that when you look closely, have depth
of field/out of focus problems! And suddenly, at the time when certain
optical devices become available, everyone in a lot of paintings becomes
left handed... even a monkey in one picture!

I flicked through Hockneys book of the programme - very interesting too.

And the LUG will like this - the Art Theorists hate the theory - because
Hockney is just an uppity famous and very good artist!

I imagine it will come to PBS or something like that sometime. There was a
good article in the Radio Times, and one in the New Yorker by Hockney a year
or so ago.

Tim A

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> Subject: Re: [Leica] Critical discourse on photography
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>  critique would undermine my sophomoric moniker, and would
> > far exceeds the list's playful and irreverent banter. I'm quite
> > comfortable here, on the jungle floor, screeching and tossing leaves
> > over my head.
> >
>
> Well said!!
>
> Did anyone read the times story about Thomas Eakins (and Vermeer,
> etc) using
> the camera obscura and the camera lucida..projecting the image onto the
> canvas and, yes, tracing....then great paintings result. (Hockney
> has a new
> book on this)
> A camera can be a tool, a piece of art in and of itself... and of course
> photography can be technical, documentary and/or art or humor or porn
> or...ad infinitum.
> No limits!!! so keep up the banter.
>
> t
>
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