Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > -- > 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