Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chris wrote: >>Should be a good film, but they are using John Sexton to promote who usually shoots large format so of course it will be sharp!<< John Sexton. There's a name that I haven't seen in a while. I met him briefly years ago when I lived in Carmel and there was a photo exhibition at the Dolores gallery near where I worked. I was in San Francisco last week and went to see the David Seymour (Chim) exhibition at the de Young Museum. One thing that struck me was how much photography has changed. Evolved might be a better word, but I'm not sure it's evolved for the better. There were several photos of Chim, Capa and other Magnum founders. They looked bigger than life! Another impression I took away was the connection I felt when viewing some of the silver gelatin prints. I knew that a silver print had to have been in close proximity to the negative, and the negative in close proximity to the photographer and the subject. I felt more intimacy with those prints than with the digital re-creations. Sounds odd, maybe. It even took me by surprise. Part of me says I should ignore the medium completely and just take the content of the images. OTOH, there's probably a reason why a reputable museum would list the medium in its brief caption of info. Maybe the medium is important. It was fun to see travel documents that listed items Chim carried with him in 1947. No surprise. Leicas and Rolleiflexes! DaveR