Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/08

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Subject: [Leica] Some more 'cutting the edge'
From: imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)
Date: Sat Dec 8 14:22:31 2007
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On Dec 8, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
> I still question why to be new... you need new technique...

I don't believe that "to be new" you need new technique.
Something, however, has to qualify as "new."
It could come from: technique, style, subject, etc. or any combination.

> then I think you become a slave to a certain technique...

One may "become a slave" to a technique; or simply an explorer of a  
technique which holds one's interest. I certainly do not consider  
Morell a slave to technique. I consider him a visual explorer  
remaining true to photography in its purest form.

> it's a bit like saying to write the next great novel you must use a  
> certain new computer...

Here you've switched from "new" to "great."

> if you really have something new-great-important to say...
>  ...why can't you use a pencil and paper ?

Now you've added "important." While these three adjectives may all  
apply to an artists work. More than likely - pick one - for most art/ 
artists. Of course a wordsmith can create potentially great and/or  
new and/or important work with any tool that will record their words  
- back to charcoal on the cave wall.

Hypertext has, however, opened up a whole "new" form of novel  
literature which moves away from the linear story. <http:// 
www.unknownhypertext.com/opensource.htm>
While quite new, 'tis for others to judge if it qualify as important  
or great literature?

Then there's the hypertext multimedia world, which presents yet  
another "cutting, bleeding edge" of personal expression - much of it  
quite exciting - as a new form. This work presents non-linear story  
telling with images, state of the art graphics, sounds, video, etc.  
Takes a lot of time to get to the best of it. Lot's of crap to sort  
through, due to the marvelous reality of all this hardware and  
software becoming available to just about everyone - whether you have  
something great or important or even interesting to say, or not.
;~)

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george@imagist.com
www.imagist.com
Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07




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