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

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: The Decisive Moment is gone
From: Tim Atherton <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:13:12 -0700

>
> >An editorial about how the decisive moment is no longer relevant
> in current
> >photography:
>
> I read it more as talking about the decisive moment in art photography.
> That's a far different animal than current photography, in general.
>
> Since when was creating pure art about the decisive
> moment--ever??  I guess
> I don't see what the big deal is.

Especially as the "Decisive Moment" never actually was the decisive moment -
really more of a publishers invention....

tim

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