Re: [Leica] re: The Decisive Moment is gone

["Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com>]

On the subject of acting, in dramas of our own choosing or those forced upon
us:

http://robertappleby.com/images/bobcat.pdf
http://robertappleby.com/images/passcheck.pdf

- -- Rob

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- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] re: The Decisive Moment is gone


> Well, some people are better at directing than others. And also, direction
> need not mean _overspecifying_ - but it could mean saying, why don't you
all
> go over and sit in that doorway and play with the baby for a bit while I
> take some pictures.
>
> The fact is we are all actors all the time, and a good photographer knows
> how to leverage that to get what he wants.
>
> -- Rob
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tina Manley" <images@InfoAve.Net>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 7:06 PM
> Subject: RE: [Leica] re: The Decisive Moment is gone
>
>
> > At 10:20 AM 11/3/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> > >Does it matter that Kertesz directed some of his pictures? The
photograph
> of
> > >two lovers kissing on a park bench is iconic - on postcards everywhere.
> Does
> > >it matter that they were his friends, who were in love, who he asked to
> sit
> > >on the bench and embrace. Or that Gary Winogrand - regarded by most to
be
> > >the "the" maestro of street photography - would "insert" his children
in
> a
> > >scene ("Go on in
> > > > there and do something interesting.") as the picture needed just
that
> one
> > >additional thing for it to work.
> > >
> > >Not in the least they are still as real - and as fictitious - as if
they
> had
> > >come across them by happenstance.
> >
> > It matters to me, as the photographer.  Somehow a spontaneous, unposed
> > photograph tells more about the people in the photograph than about the
> > photographer.  A photo like this
> > one:  http://www.leica-gallery.net/tinamanley/image-29684.html
> > tells me about the relationship between the father, mother, and baby.
If
> I
> > had directed them - now you sit here in the doorway and hold the baby
and
> > you hold out your hand to touch the baby's hand - then the photograph
> would
> > be about acting and directing, not about feelings.  It would be an ad
for
> > bluejeans or straw hats instead of a moment in real lives.  I hate
> > "life-style" stock photographs for that reason.
> >
> > It might be subtle difference, but, to me, it's there.
> >
> > Tina
> >
> >
> >
> > Tina Manley, ASMP
> > www.tinamanley.com
> >
> >
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