Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Snapshots vs 'art'
From: Dante Stella <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:17:06 -0400 (EDT)

Just by way of clarification, my late-night slander was of some studio
portrait photographers, not people on the street.


Dante

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Felix Lopez de Maturana wrote:

> >living bill themselves.  It seems that the more mediocre the
> >photography, the worse the hyperbole (hope I'm not appropriating any
> >real trademarks, but you get the idea):
>
> Dante
>
> I cannot agree. If it's true that any pictures "capturing the moment"
> mainly of human beeing acting are interesting, see HCB, that cannot
> exclude many other ways of photographying in many other diverse styles.
> If they are art or not it's a different question but I do not believe
> that the main reason of shooting a camera is for producing art. In my
> case my camera(s) is/are for producing a graphic memory (much more than
> a souvenir) that gives me a pleasure when regarding them again and, more
> important, for the pleasure of shooting a camera independing of the
> output. Beeing an amateur I have made, for a friend, the Major of my
> city, two portfolios, actually published and remunerated, and I have
> found my pleasure during these works to be intact. None of the works
> were "capturing the moment" but capturing the reality in images. BTW I
> must be the only member in the list who does not shoot, practically
> never, B&W. I hope I have not to go out of the list as a heretic...
>
> Kind regards
>
> Felix
>
>
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