Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]oh god! i should more becareful next time i post so I won't bring up such a topic between capitalism and communism. sorry everyone. please close the topic. :) Olivier >From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] New Street Photos from Hanoi. - BACK ON PHOTO RELATED >TOPIC >Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 08:50:14 -0700 > >B. D. Colen wrote: ><<But this is one of those examples of someone being in a setting, >observing, feeling, smelling, hearing everything about it, taking a still >photo, and then thinking that the viewers of that photo will observe, feel, >smell, and hear everything the photographer did when he pushed the shutter >release. > > > > The only thing that's ever in the photo is what's in the photo. ;-)<<< > >Hi B.D. >You couldn't have explained it more meaningfully. People constantly read >all >kinds of things and feelings into a photograph far beyond what the >photographer did or felt as all he or she did was .... simply expose a >moment on film.... sans absolutely everything he or she was feeling at the >moment of shutter release. > >I mean, look at the comments about Steve Barbour's latest child photograph >of a kid in a hospital for example. There was fear of a needle to the >typical reactions of native peoples to a camera and several other imaginary >things in their own minds which had absolutely nothing to do with the >photograph. > >When in reality, it was a sick or recovering child in the hospital. It >could've been any child. What Steve did was a capture a moment of stress >any child has in a strange environment when they're ill. > >There are a couple of things photographers shouldn't do... well OK lots >more >than a couple, but these will do. Pre-conceiving before you get to the >shoot site and putting imaginary feelings into a photograph with no >relevance to the reality of the moment of exposure. > >However, quite frankly none of us being perfect, we do it all the time. But >that doesn't make it right, as generally it screws-up what the pictures can >be or are. >ted >Ted Grant Photography Limited >www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html No Archive _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html