Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Wafkowski" <allanwafkowski@mac.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 6:55 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] GeeBees' PAW Week 28 > You crazy, wild sinner! This shot is straight-on Pictorialism and I love > it. > > Years ago, when pictorialism was gong out of fashion, being replaced > with newspaper photography (a.k.a. documentary photography), this type > of composition would have been called contrived. One would hope that in > today's climate of distorted plastic lenses, uneven horizontals without > purpose, out-of-focus images, gratuitous fat asses as subjects, and the > other "arty" things that make the current stockpot of modern > photography, there are none foolish enough to criticize a very well done > pictorialist image. Actually, what makes it fun is that those self-same > foolish people are at the rudder of photography at this very moment. My > only hope is that you will title it. If only to see the old farts' > blood-o-pumping. > > Allan > > > geebeespaw wrote: > > Ever the rebel I have now switched from bottom > > left subjects to bottom right subjects I don't know where this > > rebellion is > > going to end, I am now storing my 'Milk of Magnesia' in a hot damp > > place :-) > > > > http://www.geebeephoto.com/html/sywell_21.html > > > > Graham > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html Gave me a happy feeling .thanks .simon - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html