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

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Subject: [Leica] photography today is GARBAGE
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:56:29 2005

Platinum shmatimum! A true photograph etched for eternity upon a copper
plate. What a bunch of wusses!


On 7/13/05 4:52 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> One guys intolerance is another guys gross crass bass indulgence.
> 
> To think that one can create a photograph of any respectable consequence on
> a chip of 24x36mm rollfilm is ridiculous.
> We all know that the only camera worth bothering with is a Deardorf.
> 8x10 inch hopefully but ideally an 11x14.
> To be contact printed on platinum paper which you coat yourself on 100% rag
> paper. Its obvious to anyone that once you project film it falls apart. A
> silver print is a pale imitation of a true photograph which is platinum. 
> All
> the great photographers knew that.
> To hold a camera in ones hands and think one is going to make a decent
> photograph is a laugh. Your most important piece of year is a substantial
> wooden tripod. Few of your exposures will be less than a minute.
> Each sheet of film you shoot needs to be processed individually in trays in
> total darkness in dangerous and tricky Pyro developer wearing rubber gloves
> up to your elbows.
> The quality you get putting them in racks in a tank you're just kidding
> yourself.
> 
> And my models are of courses virgins who bath in milk a full hour before
> every shoot. Their parents help with the poses. I have a metal rack thing
> behind their heads to keep them still for those 5 minute exposures. But 
> they
> always blink the kids nowadays have no self control.
> 
> 
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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