Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, You have put really interesting questions, maybe would be very long to comment; probably the pictures are a projection of our own sensibility, it seems to me that I want to show something that is disapearing ... or is for ever, a human side and a reflection about different things, always a research for the inside beauty. Maybe photography is becoming for me an exercise as it was for Marcel Proust "La recherche du temps perdu" (I don't know in English, sorrry. I can't continue, I should go to sleep..., tomorrow we can continue. All the best! Lluis El 16/09/2008, a las 18:05, Lottermoser George escribi?: > An interesting and tough comment. > > great questions: > "what are you trying to say?" > I wonder if attempting to verbalize what a photographer or an image > "is trying to say" diminishes the visual message. > "is the subject strong?" > visually? > conceptually? > historically? > politically? > socially? > stylistically? > ? > > Great photographs fall into so many different genres, use so many > different styles, methods, levels of craft and art ? yet, all great > ones present a confluence of design elements, content, subject, > light, sense of moment and personal point of view ? so as to produce > some kind of magical visual message ? in a manner quite different > from paintings, drawings or other visual mediums. Photographs seem > to hang between representational paintings (drawings) and poetry. YMMV > > I agree that the white wall element on the left pulls the eye away. > And that good photographs [do reach] for more than [mere] > representation. > > Fond regards, > George > > george@imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:06 AM, Alastair Firkin wrote: > >> For me this ticks the boxes: what are you trying to say/show, is >> the subject strong, is the composition good, are there distractions >> (here the white wall back left is pulling my eye from the action >> and would be cropped). Good images should be more than >> representations although the latter also has a role in history. >> >> Cheers >> >> Alatair >> >> --- luisripoll@telefonica.net wrote: >> >> From: Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll@telefonica.net> >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: [Leica] Looking at pictures >> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:23:43 +0200 >> >> With IIIF, Elmar 4/90, TX >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/08070407.jpg.html >> >> Thanks for looking, your c&c are always appreciated, >> >> Saludos cordiales >> Lluis >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information