Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13

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Subject: [Leica] photography today is GARBAGE
From: mak at teleport.com (mak@teleport.com)
Date: Wed Jul 13 09:41:56 2005

Decaf is indicated here

> From: george karvman <leicaphotogod@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:08:25 -0400
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] photography today is GARBAGE
> 
> All I look at and all I see today is these kids with their wizbangs who
> don't understand CRAP about emulsions or how to mix up a batch of hypo and
> all their photos are CRAP pictures of idiots on skateboards and young women
> (??????) with metal things in their faces, this isn't photography, it's
> GARBAGE. These people should be in JAIL. I have to ask: WHERE ARE THEIR
> PARENTS? If my daughters had ever come home looking like that, my wife and 
> I
> would have taken care of it QUICK. The great photographers, Seieglitz,
> Eisendstaedt, Cartier-Bresson, Lewis Hine, Smith (who was GENE to me),
> wouldn't tolerate this, so why are we? These people don't understand
> anything about capturing the MOMENT, all they care about is where they're
> going to get their next DRUG HIGH. EOS stands for BRAIN DEAD, and NIKON
> stands for CRAP. The F was a good camera and then they were FINISHED.
> 
> I take my cameras out and I make PHOTOGRAPHS, the camera i use, LEICA, 
> makes
> me THINK about the photographs before I take them. I compose them in my
> mind, and capture them on film, and then I develop this film and PRINT it 
> in
> my DARKROOM. Today's kids brains have been destroyed by auto-idiot cameras
> and they don't understand anything. Which is why their "photographs" are so
> bad. The so called "digital" is not photography. PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE 
> CREATION
> OF AN IMAGE ON FILM. My Leica cameras will last for another one-hundred
> years, and if I am not around to use them, then my grandchildren will use
> them and they will be just as capable as producing PHOTOGRAPHS then as they
> are now.
> 
> I'm glad many of you have been waiting for someone to say this.
> 
> George
> 
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