Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Photoshop dilemma...or...were the Glory Days of PJ often pretty sad...?
From: Mark Kronquist <mak@teleport.com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:51:02 -0900

on 5/15/02 10:06 AM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote:

> Actually, let me add a p.s. and a bit of a change of subject.....(I'm
> segueing from Smith into this next one....)
> 
> Recently looking through a bunch of Life magazines from the 50s and early
> 60s I was forced to confront the ugly truth that while magazines certainly
> used more photo stories back when, a lot of what was published, even in
> Life, was pretty sad - photos often look setup...and were setup...photos are
> often amazingly predictable, etc. Sure, there was some really amazing stuff
> published at times - Smith's Country Doctor certainly holds up - but allot
> of the run of the mill work was just that...
> 
> We tend to forget that while the good old days were old, they weren't
> necessarily all that good..;-)
> 


Of course Life Look and goodness knows what else were publishing weekly
newsmagazines stuffed full of images in the days before digital and
modems...

much content is going to be subpar...just as Natl Geo goes through 7500
images for every one printed...


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