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

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Subject: [Leica] photography today is GARBAGE
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed Jul 13 18:03:46 2005
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good try Kyle...

:-)


Steve


On Jul 13, 2005, at 9:08 AM, george karvman wrote:

> 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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Replies: Reply from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] photography today is GARBAGE)
In reply to: Message from leicaphotogod at hotmail.com (george karvman) ([Leica] photography today is GARBAGE)