Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They portray the reality of a westerner in a third world setting, what else do you expect? - -- 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: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 7:21 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] re: The Decisive Moment is gone > They certainly don't look set up, and some of them are truly outstanding > images. But given Rob's philosophy regarding the role of the > photographer and photography, I always have to wonder. That doesn't make > the images any less technically compelling - and moving - but it does > make me wonder about whose reality they convey. > > B. D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Daniel > Ridings > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 1:12 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] re: The Decisive Moment is gone > > > > >This sort of thing?: > > >http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0204/city_intro.htm > > > > I've loved Rob's photographs of India since I first saw them; but > > after his comments here, I wonder how many of them were set up. Do > > you really think it doesn't matter? > > Looking at them doesn't make me wonder how he got the train to rush by, > or the people to wash clothes in the water or to buy offerings at the > temple entrance. > > Daniel > -- > 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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html