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Subject: [Leica] was iso 100.000+?? now photo quotes
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:39:31 -0700
References: <C7073504.3A26%lug@steveunsworth.co.uk> <E2F0FF69-98A1-4CED-AFD3-8400D384B498@mac.com> <4AE1D5BA.9040409@comcast.net>

Aw gee guys I thought somebody might of had mine! ;-)

"Real Photographers shoot B&W. Sometimes colour!"
OR
"Real Photographers shoot B&W.
 Eat Sushi.
 And drink single malt Scotch!"

ted


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charcot" <charcot at comcast.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] was iso 100.000+?? now photo quotes


> My favorite quote from either Winogrand or Freidlander is:
>
> " I photograph things to see what things look like photographed"  when
> asked why he was a photographer.
>
> I just joined a photo club and plan on appropriating this phrase for my
> artistic statement - because I find artistic statements odious, never
> read them ( let the photo speak for itself).  No offense to those who
> like artists statements.
>
> ernie nitka
>
> George Lottermoser wrote:
>> ..Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary
>> recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was
>> nothing there. I just watched it evaporate. You look one moment and
>> there's everything, next moment it's gone. Photography is very
>> philosophical. - Joel Meyerowitz
>>
>> All photography is propaganda. - Martin Parr
>>
>> Photography is universal language; it doesn't need translation. Its
>> collective memory is a mirror in which our society continually
>> observes itself... - Sebastiao Salgado
>>
>> Black and white photography is a perfect lie. We must not let colour
>> destroy this image. - Patrick Summerfield
>>
>> Documentary photography is the presentation or representation of
>> actual fact in a way that makes it credible and vivid to an audience
>> at the time. - David Hurn
>>
>> For me photography is a form of prayer. - Don Doll
>>
>> Great photography is always on the edge of failure. - Garry Winogrand
>>
>> Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. - Garry Winogrand
>>
>> the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality
>> (whatever that is) on film... if, later, the reality means something
>> to someone else, so much the better. - Garry Winogrand
>>
>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser
>> george at imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>
>> On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:25 AM, Steve Unsworth wrote:
>>
>>> "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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