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Subject: [Leica] The great thing about teaching a workshop...
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Sun Jul 10 19:57:27 2005
References: <BEF7290A.2502%bdcolen@comcast.net>

That's reasonable.   I can agree with that.



> The serious begins with them at the 4th of July Fair....obviously, this is
> only a few hour slice of time. To have more of an evolving story, she will
> need to spend much more time with them.
>
> My point is that this is a 24-year-old kid in a workshop with no
> professional experience - and quite frankly, she's doing work that to my 
> eye
> is certainly superior to the vast majority of what I see every day.
>
>
> On 7/10/05 7:04 PM, "Robert Meier" <robertmeier@usjet.net> wrote:
>
>> OK, well framed shots.  I can agree with that.   And they capture a 
>> fluid,
>> evolving scene?    A bunch of guys without shirts hanging out, drinking
>> beer, smoking, playing a guitar, and a woman who seems to be reading one 
>> of
>> them out.  So, what is the evolving story?  Who are they?  What's 
>> happening?
>> I don't know.     I thought you were claiming something more substantial 
>> for
>> these pictures.
>>
>>
>>> I'm seeing well framed shots that capture - in most of them - a fluid,
>>> evolving scene. But we probably see them differently.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/10/05 2:53 PM, "Robert Meier" <robertmeier@usjet.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What specifically are the qualities that make these more than random 
>>>> snap
>>>> shots?  What do you mean when you say 'one of these images' and 'one or
>>>> two
>>>> like these'?   What are you looking at and seeing in them?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> But when looked at carefully, they're not at all. One might spend an
>>>>> afternoon in this situation, as she did, taking random snapshots, and
>>>>> not
>>>>> get one of these images. Or, if one was lucky taking random snap 
>>>>> shots,
>>>>> get
>>>>> one or two like these; she's got at least 20 out of 200- which is a
>>>>> shockingly high success rate.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/10/05 12:52 PM, "Robert Meier" <robertmeier@usjet.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Tamer than Clark, but very similar.   The amazing thing is they look,
>>>>>> at
>>>>>> first glance, like random snapshots.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Or  Larry Clark's stuff - She really has an eye.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 7/10/05 10:30 AM, "bill harting" <vintagebill@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Reminds me of aspects of Frederic Wiseman's amazing film "Belfast".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> bill h
>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
>>>>>>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>>>>>>>> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:35 AM
>>>>>>>> Subject: [Leica] The great thing about teaching a workshop...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ...is discovering that one of your students has IT...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This work was shot by a 24-year-old woman named Casey Splain;
>>>>>>>>> remember
>>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>> name:
>>>>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album244
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> B. D.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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