Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>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 Dogmatism, intolerance or a photographic taliban? Felix "El que calla, otorga...