[Leica] rummage and a bit more on emulation

[leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)]

the classic orland

http://www.tedorland.com/truths.html


Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157
www.leowesson.com


On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:23 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at 
mac.com>wrote:

> Last saturday I stopped at a church rummage sale
> bought 3 designer summer shirts for $8.00
>
> and paperback edition of
> "Art & Fear: Observations On The Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
> for $.50;
> which turned out to be the best value per cost
> I've achieved in quite some time.
> This sweet little book,
> 122 well written pages,
> written by two photographers
> David Bayles and Ted Orland
> discusses in the most succinct language
> the world,
> interior and exterior,
> of artmaking
> (no matter the medium).
>
> Excerpt: referring to first experience of a Weston print,
> "It was unlike anything else I had seen. It was so much more ?something?
> than other photographs, particularly my photographs. It was different in
> kind.
> In that instant an unbidden distinction formed in my gut ? there were now
> two kinds of photographs in the world: the one before me on the wall and
> all the rest.
>        That photograph was mine to experience. But neither it, nor anything
> like it,
> was mine to make. Yet it took a decade to dispel the gnawing feeling that
> my work
> should do what that work had done. And more years still before I thought to
> question
> where the power of such art resided: In the maker? In the artwork? In the
> viewer?
>        If, indeed, for any given time only a certain sort of work resonates
> with life, then
> that is the work you need to be doing in that moment. If you try to do some
> other work,
> you will miss your moment. Indeed, our own work is so inextricably tied to
> time and place
> that we cannot recapture even our own aesthetic ground of past times."
>
> And near the end of the book,
> "We tell the stories we have to tell, stories of the things that draw us in
> ? and why should any of us
> have more than a handful of those? The only work really worth doing ? the
> only work you can do convincingly ?
> is the work that focuses on the things you care about. To not focus on
> those issues is to deny the constants in your life.
>        ?Simply put, artists learn how to proceed, or they don't. The
> individual recipe any artist finds for proceeding belongs to that artist
> alone ? it's non-transferable and of little use to others.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
>
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