Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, Your pictures are very striking. I really don't care how you made them (wouldn't mind knowing). Several are really imaginative and intriguing. My favorites: If I Was A Whore Green Tranny, Red Panties Why Is It Always a Redhead? The Blue Station Montmartre Corner First, I watched her smoke The Place Jackson Pollock Went To After He Died 83-34-84 Egon's Ex Teppan Chef Tobacco Ghost That is, most of the highly manipulated or abstracted ones. Maybe this sort of imagery is somewhat common in some circles. If so, I still think these are fascinating on their own, whatever stylistic school they my (or not?) belong to. As convenient as the titles are for identification, or to explain the image a bit (ie. Kafka''s Microscope), I find them distracting and would rather be completely on my own in interpreting the pictures. (Or, I'm too dim to understand your allusions.) That's me - I never liked titles, just location and date. What if Beethoven had used a title rather than just "Symphony No. 5"? Would've sucked. Ever after, people would be asking, what did he mean by that title, rather than listening with unbiased ears to the music. Music was lucky to be able to escape that tradition. Anyway, thank you very much for sharing these photos. I hope you can hang them in a spacious gallery and make them as big as possible. They work great on the screen, too. Carl - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html