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Subject: [Leica] was iso 100.000+?? -- now quotes
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:15:07 -0700
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On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:07 AM, K Landdeck wrote:

> Reminds me of the quote that kicked off the entranceway to the  
> Friedlander retrospective when it came through SF a while back:
>
> "I only wanted Uncle Vern standing by his new car
> (a Hudson) on a clear day.  I got him and the car.
> I also got a bit of Aunt Mary's laundry and Beau Jack,
> the dog, peeing on a fence, and a row of potted
> tuberous begonias on the porch and seventy-eight
> trees and a million pebbles in the
> driveway and more.  It's a generous medium,
> photography."  -- Friedlander.
>
> Our "seeing" really only involves paying attention to a very small  
> number of elements in our field of view.  In many (most? all?)  
> cases, photographs show us what we didn't see while we were  
> "seeing".  Of course, sometimes that other stuff ruins the image,  
> other times it makes it.


brilliant,   and true...


Steve


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> -- Kevin
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> On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:48 AM, H. Ball Arche wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> ----- 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
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>> On 22/10/09 22:04, "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> "Photography is a higher form of pointing" - Johnny Deadman
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