Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]While reading some from <http://www.johnrosenthal.com/photog.htm> this seemed particularly relevant to this photograph as well as most of your work Steve: Photographs console us in the face of death and oblivion - it's their fundamental gift; they testify to what has been and what will be no more, and this testimony matters. It matters because oblivion is actually more than we can handle; because we get old and lose faith in the quick and competent gods of our childhood; because, unless we deny what our eyes see or turn ourselves into machinery, the future of everything is full of loss and disappearing; because we not only forget but we're also forgotten. Of course photographs matter. They remind us of that important time before the future fell upon us like a roof - when we were still handsome and lively, when our parents loved each other, and said so, and our best friend, wearing a foolish red bandanna, hadn't died. Nor is there anything false or hollow about this testimony or the melancholy it evokes, because all of it - within the great paradoxical realm of the photograph - happens to be true. To be human is to remember. That's why people standing on the lawn of their burning homes - their children safe from harm - cry for their lost photographs. "Mulberry Street: The Story of a Photograph," Five Points Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On May 2, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Steve Barbour wrote: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/dementia/fusakokim.jpg.html > > > > > > M9 Noctilux 50mm f 1.0 > > > > thanks, > > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information