Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Salgado to speak in Seattle Feb 16
From: George Lottermoser <imagist@concentric.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:40:08 -0600

simon@camera-craftsman.com (Simon Stevens)2/12/027:20 AM

> Unless you a photographing for a chocolate
> box, the falling-down shack is more photogenic than the row of 
> ordinary
> houses. The ordinary houses may be economically more 
> representative, but
> a photograph of them will be too ordinary, uninteresting, maybe 
> cutesy.
> Banal.

I find the greatest challenge in overcoming this
over-generalization - to find and communicate the extraordinary
within the superficially mundane. Bill Owens did a pretty nice
job of this with "Suburbia".

George


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