Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/30

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Subject: [Leica] Cutting edge photography
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Fri Nov 30 15:09:20 2007
References: <AD82ACB9-13D4-47B5-B26D-711BA3C7660C@mac.com> <24B51F35-B5F3-4419-93B9-BC2C8F14BE29@cox.net>

Op 30-nov-07, om 23:50 heeft Steve Barbour het volgende geschreven:

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> On Nov 30, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Lottermoser George wrote:
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>> Philippe Orlent and I have delved into a discussion of avant-garde  
>> photography.
>> By this I mean absolutely fresh, cutting edge, pushing limits, new?
>> Do you have links for us to look at what you may believe to be such?
>> These may be genre specific: as in cutting edge photo journalism,  
>> fine art, portraiture, etc.
>>
>> example: fashion: < http://community.livejournal.com/foto_decadent>
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> George, please help me...
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> absolutely fresh....how cutting edge can it be George,  if it's  
> "foto_decadent",
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> and decadent is often defined as "corrosive decline" ?
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> does this mean it's so passe that it's new?

Decadence mostly implies the end of an era. But in that 'genre', too,  
there are avant gardists :-)
Rococo meanth the end of a period. But Jean-Antoine Watteau was one  
of their avant gardists, f.i.

Philippe

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> Steve
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>> thoughts?
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>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser
>> george@imagist.com
>> www.imagist.com
>> Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07
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In reply to: Message from imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George) ([Leica] Cutting edge photography)
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