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Subject: [Leica] Salgado now great image/camera ?
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:26:38 +1000
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Jayanand I feel very differently about Ansel's work as you know. Let me say
as an example that to stand in Yosemite is a religious experience.

2009/6/3 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>

> Hoppy,
> I am with HCB on the latter point. Though Adams' iconic vision looks
> great, it also looks bare, emotionless and to a point a little sterile
> - that those vast swathes of land have no living creature in them at
> all....(I have four of Alan Ross' prints of AA negatives, and they
> really glow - but I would not buy more)
>
> For a modern equivalent for using unusual equipment, there is Nick
> Brandt, who shoots African wildlife close up, and in black & white
> with a Pentax 6x7 - http://www.nickbrandt.com/ . These things are
> generally the exception rather than the rule. Each one chooses the
> tools for the job at hand depending on how he conceptualizes and
> visualizes it, and these things will differ from person to person.
> What I think is more important, is that the photographer is one with
> his camera, working on pure instinct.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:18 AM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net
> <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > George Lottermoser wrote:
> >
> >>>>
> > Paul strand could have chosen a rollei, or whatever
> > he chose an 8x10 camera with a prism on the lens
> > for his street work in Egypt.
> > That work looks the way it does
> > because of the man and his choice.
> > <<<
> >
> > And Eliot Porter used a 4x5 view camera for his photos of wild birds.
> >
> > Doug Herr
> > Birdman of Sacramento
> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> >
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-- 
Cheers
Geoff
'Life's not B&W, except at both ends'
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