Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 08/09/2008, at 13:13, Tina Manley wrote: > If there is nothing there to begin with (admitting that's very > subjective) a good or great print is still not interesting to me. I was assuming that a there it was something to work with (apart subject tastes and other matters), an awful print of a glorious capture as much it will be a mediocre experience, a glorius print of a mediocre snap might do an impression. IMHO Capa's D-day pictures -personally speaking- are absolutelly forgetable, their only value [nothing less, nothing more] is historic, we cannot blame Capa, but... in the end photography is mainly a vision of a moment done trought a tight angle of vision which is filtered and modelled by the photographer and whose result is a fiction of reality [or even fabulation] in the spectator's mind which will fill the gaps on the story. That's why honestity is so important in a documentary photography as neutrality is almost impossible. In this sense a good print (whatever way you reach to it) helps more than it seems to reach people minds, either early spring ferns or starving people suffering the endless drought and wars at the Sahel. Mediocrity in this sense leads to quickly fed-up and forget whatever we were trying to say or expose, so I'd care the final output as much as I did with the capture and the message. Let's raise the bar together. I feel better, to hell with photography, art, women, and all E. Weston, 1924 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://luis.imaginarymagnitude.net/