Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30

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Subject: [Leica] The Decisive Moment is gone
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:44:08 -0500

LUG:

An editorial about how the decisive moment is no longer relevant in current 
photography:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31924-2003Oct28.html

In part:
Fine photography, awkwardly renamed "photo-based art," is now about using 
your film as an art supply like any other, with a highly planned, complex, 
fully conceptualized picture as the end result. Photographic artists are no 
longer hunters, prowling the world for the most beautiful or striking prey 
they can find. They've become taxidermists and diorama makers, using 
manipulated bits and pieces of the world to make a studied point about how 
it works, or doesn't work, or might work if the rules were changed.

Explanations like this remind me of the Calvin and Hobbes strip about 
art.  The article even mentions Leica so it's on topic!

Tina


Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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