[Leica] iso 100.000+??

[wendythurman at gmail.com (Wendy Thurman)]

Hockney did at least one too many swimming pools.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:48 PM, H. Ball Arche <h_arche at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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