Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica spotted in Magazine
From: "Stuart Phillips" <stuart.phillips@rcn.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 01:47:44 -0500
References: <27E5B852-08DA-11D7-AA35-00039354861E@attinasi.org>

Adams' work is everywhere - I'm sick of seeing it. That really has no
bearing on it's quality.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Attinasi" <marc@attinasi.org>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica spotted in Magazine


>
> Well I guess the LUG is the best place to get the last word on boring.
> (So, can we move on to discussing the best bag for my R3 kit now?)
>
> :-)
>
> I can see how people might consider his work boring, but I was reacting
> to the notion that his work is 'soulless'. That is a notion I fully
> reject.
>
> Really, how can a photograph can have 'soul' at all? It happens in two
> ways: 1) the subject's soul is captured visually by the  photographer,
> or 2) the photographer's soul is captured by their interpretation of
> their subject. I've seen Adams photos that work both ways.
>
> - marc
>
> On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 06:32  PM, Tim Atherton wrote:
>
> >> Is there another Ansel Adams who takes photos, or are you guys all on
> >> drugs?
> >
> > no - just the technically perfect but boring one... St. Ansel as he is
> > known
> > around here
> >
> > tim
>
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