Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]First off, I'd like to apologize for the slap at your wife; I realized after I pushed the button that I had, uh, over-reacted. However - I get really tired of that button pusher line, which is basically what one used to hear from reporters about photographers. The photographer can be/is just as much an artist, a visionary, as a painter. There is no photograph without the photographer seeing the possibilities - which, of course, is really the decisive moment - working the scene, which can take an instant, or hours or even days, deciding when to shoot, how to shoot, framing - and then deciding how to print the image. Best 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 LRZeitlin@aol.com Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 2:07 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Re: Terminal something or other In a message dated 2/1/04 10:58:46 PM, owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us writes: << Larry Z. told us that ... "When I ask my wife" - who, we are told, makes her own oil paint and brushes - "if she would care to use one of my Leicas to take a picture, she sniffs "What's the challenge in that? You push the button and Kodak does the rest." Well, I could say something about terminal pretentiousness, but I'll restrain myself... ;-) >> B. D., You are reading too much into my post. I never said my wife makes her own paints and brushes. She is happy to buy them, thank you. She just feels, as most fine artists do, that photography is a mechanical art, with the camera lens doing the heavy lifting. Clearly the choice and framing of a subject is the same for both media but photographers have the advantage that they do not have to spend years in learning the eye/hand coordination necessary to apply paint to canvas. True, they have to learn other things - but painters don't concern themselves with technology. Larry Z - -- 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