Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, I read the New Yorker piece and the Times mentioned the BBC show, with no other info of course... > From: "Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:35:46 -0700 > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Critical discourse on photography > > 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 > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of ternahan >> Sent: November 29, 2001 1:19 AM >> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Critical discourse on photography >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html