Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think that at one time it was considered advocacy photography, which has once again come back full circle to that definition. Recently, publications like Doubletake and Aperture have added a sort of formalism to the approach. The demands of a new photographic consumer, the investor, pushed for new definitions of the work on hand. Definitions that I think would often be at odds with past usages that the photographer's used themselves. Slobodan Dimitrov - ---------- >From: Tim Atherton <tim@KairosPhoto.com> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: RE: [Leica] The Decisive Moment is gone >Date: Thu, Oct 30, 2003, 10:17 AM > > >> 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. > > Been a long time coming - didn't that happen around the 1930's? (or was it > earlier?) > > tim > > -- > 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