[Leica] The Barnack Award, or bubble gum photography!

[ruben at rhodos.dk (Ruben)]

This "trendy" way of shooting casually - boring and everyday uninteresting
images with not much artistic contents has been sweeping over Europe for
many years now followed be a crowd of pleasers telling everbody this is the
new art photography -  museum collections buy it and photographers do what
could be branded as classic photography style are rediculed for their work.
I dont really care who Leica gives the Barnack Award - but this is a low!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics" <saganicc@mskcc.org>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 6:35 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] The Barnack Award, or bubble gum photography!


> I didn't recognize the place and I go there regularly.  He does capture a
certain quality which reflects an off season feel, or mid-week early
afternoon feel.  On weekends the place is a circus.
>
> Chris Saganich
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Leonard
J Kapner
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 12:28 PM
> To: 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: RE: [Leica] The Barnack Award, or bubble gum photography!
>
> Slobodan,
>
> I don't know what "bubble gum" photography is, but I find this series of
> images for the most part rather contrived, dull and uninteresting - a pale
> imitative reflection of the Arbus photo-documentary approach to subject
> matter.
>
> But, maybe that's how Coney Island comes across to the European
observer...
>
> Len
>
> -- 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Slobodan
> Dimitrov
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 9:03 AM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] The Barnack Award, or bubble gum photography!
>
> I decided to enter this year's Oskar Barnack Award 2004 competition. I
> figured what did I have to lose but a little bit of mail cost. It's been
an
> interesting experience, in that it's like throwing something into a big
> black pit and not hearing when it lands.
> They finally posted the results on the Leica website, and I have to admit
I
> wasn't disappointed. Most of their past selections have shown a
predilection
> toward a particular style, or mannerism, that is essentially European in
> execution.
>
> http://www.leica-camera.com/kultur/events/wettbewerbe/obp/index_e.html
>
> I kept mulling of what it reminded me of, when it dawned on me where I've
> seen the like of it before. In this case, more like where I've heard it
> before, as the term bubble gum popped into my brain.
> I guess that this is their way of going after the youth market, by
selecting
> what is essentially 70's retro imagery. In other  words bubble gum
> photography.
> S. Dimitrov
>
>
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