Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Oliver. Please understand, my comments have NOTHING to do with Communism, Capitalism, or any other "ism." The point is simply that you felt certain things when you took your photos, and those things you felt are not captured in the photographic image. You have simply presented us with a set of nice images of street life in a rather quiet looking Asian city. There is no way, looking at the images, to even guess at the political situation in the particular city. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of olivier nguyen Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 12:45 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] New Street Photos from Hanoi. - BACK ON PHOTO RELATED TOPIC 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html