Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/23

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Subject: [Leica] iso 100.000+??
From: h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:48:41 -0700 (PDT)
References: <C7073504.3A26%lug@steveunsworth.co.uk>

If my photographs only showed me I'd already seen - flat, without the smell 
and the noise, and stripped of the sense of a rushing moment in the time of 
their own making - I'd have quit in boredom a long time ago. It's the wonder 
in a camera's capacity to catch something I could never have seen in that 
moment, the discovery of some chance combination of form and light, a lucky 
combination of expression and gesture, that keeps me at it. My favorites of 
my own photographs are ones I look at and think 'I don't remember it that 
way at all'.

And about Hockney, even though he got a lot of mileage with those polaroid 
mosaics, that idea was developed and pursued to more interesting ends by 
preceding photographers. The attitude he expresses towards photo is the one 
that most painters of his generation espoused, and should be written off as 
an arrogant commonplace that workers in that medium always used to hold 
about the other.


----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Unsworth <lug at steveunsworth.co.uk>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Fri, October 23, 2009 4:25:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] iso 100.000+??

"It's a one eyed man looking through a hole" David Hockney

Steve


On 22/10/09 22:04, "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Photography is a higher form of pointing" - Johnny Deadman



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