Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The poor wretch Gopnik is about as clueless as they come. Confusing the fine art photographic process with the commercial press photography of HCB, and then throwing in street photography, a more or less grass roots photographic form, for good measure had me ROTFL. I suppose that when documentary photography was melded into the fine art school of thought, such an excretion from a staff keyboard ponder like Gopnik isn't too surprising. The usual "compare and contrast" methodology, so typical of this kind of '"critic," reminds me of some of the strains found in Sontagian vomiteria which we are now so familiar with. Slobodan Dimitrov - ---------- >From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: [Leica] The Decisive Moment is gone >Date: Thu, Oct 30, 2003, 7:44 AM > > 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