Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I don't think it's such a bad thing that the putative transparency of the documentary image is under debate. Bringing the hidden agendas behind the use of photography out into the open and making them part of the image could be a powerful critical strategy - and a useful corrective to more naive views of what documentary/photojournalism is, IMO. It isn't really such a straightforward world, is it. John Brownlow's panoramas fall under this sort of approach, I think. So far he hasn't used them to make any serious statement beyond very likeable images - forgive me John, I haven't seen your new snaps for a while - but they seem full of promise for a more articulate kind of photography. - -- Rob http://www.robertappleby.com Mobile: (+39) 348 336 7990 Home: (+39) 0536 63001 All outgoing email scanned by Norton AntiVirus (TM) 2003 Professional Edition. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images@InfoAve.Net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:44 PM Subject: [Leica] The Decisive Moment is gone > 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 > > > -- > 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