Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 06/21/03 2:12 PM, Slobodan Dimitrov at sld@earthlink.net wrote: > But really Buzz, this physiological state of arousal of yours is > somewhat unseemly, over what is just another guy's work earning a living > with his camera. Obviously you haven't put enough time into Cartier-Bresson's work to be a good judge of it, or the man. You don't even know that he was born into a very wealthy family and never had to "work for a living." He is an artist. A surrealist. And if you don't get the amazing, insightful nature of his work, and the depth and the breadth of it, I just have to say I worry for your students. What photographer out there is an example of good photography to you? One that has had a worthwhile career and yet stayed true to their art? Someone whose work deserves more than the flip-book treatment. Did it ever occur to you that photos are more than the general shape of the objects in them? Do you also require your students to throw photos out of focus to see the meaning in them? Does the word subtlety have any meaning for you? Don't get me wrong. Dislike Cartier-Bresson if you like. But don't give us such painfully obvious examples that you never seriously considered his work in the least. - -- Eric Carlsbad, CA "The ropes are heaved, down come the statues. . . . They're dragging Sejanus along by a hook in public. Everyone cheers, `Just look at that ugly face.' `Believe me I never cared for that fellow.' `But . . . (w)ho brought the charges, who gave the evidence? How did they prove him guilty?' `Nothing like that: a letter arrived from (the emperor Tiberius) at Capri.' `Fair enough: you need say no more.' " (Juvenal) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html