[Leica] That's it, I'm throwing my cameras in the river

[s.jessurun95 at chello.nl (animal)]

And that,s it?No " taking it will make me a great photographer"?

| About 'our' motivation to photograph.
|
| This past Saturday, my students were showing roughs of their semester
| projects. One young woman has been shooting at a center for the
| developmentally disabled - aw, hell, the retarded - focusing on an art
| program they have. She showed an image that was a close up of two
| people's hands awkwardly touching - a striking image - and my TA noted
| that this image was a good one for us to think about in terms of
| addressing the question 'when is photo journalism/documentary
| photography, voyeurism?' So we talked about it for a while and then I
| asked the student, 'why did you take this photo?' Her response:
|
| "I thought it would be a great photo!" No bullshit. No 'I want to help
| people.' No BS about 'understanding.' Just the bottom line - she's a
| photographer, and the image leapt out at her. And that, in my humble
| opinion, is what IT really is all about.
|
| We may take photos for various economic, personal, political,
| journalistic reasons. But if we really are the beast called
| photographers, it call comes down to "I thought it would be a great
| photo!"
|
| B. D.
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
| [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of
| Mark Rabiner
| Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 2:58 PM
| To: Leica Users Group
| Subject: Re: [Leica] That's it, I'm throwing my cameras in the river
|
|
| > |
| > Still that is a nice thing that you mentioned that we feel
threatened
| > by somebody elses expertise . An old remnant from our reptilian days
| > probably. Still whatever the cause whenever one feels threatened it
| > makes sense to explore why and take action.
| > And remove either the thread or the mechanism that caused the false
| > warning.
| > In this case one could question ones motive to photograph at
all.Apart
| > from making a living .
| > interesting thanks
| > simon
| >
| >
| >
| Much of this is just the mystique of the still image.
|
|
|
| Mark Rabiner
| Photography
| Portland Oregon
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