Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]total agreement words strong without images image strong without words together = more than the sum of the parts (my original point) (and of course we're not talking about weak images and/or weak words. Why would we do that?) Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Aug 27, 2010, at 1:37 PM, kyle cassidy wrote: > I don't think we're in disagreement -- I think any of those photos > work without the text -- as is evidenced by the "best of life > magazine" book we all probably have that has many of the magazines > beautiful images without their accompanying stories, but with the > articles & words they are made stronger. the words don't prop up the > image, rather they augment them. > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:33 PM, George Lottermoser > <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: >> Objective criteria for visual art, music or literature >> is certainly hard to come by. >> Someone always breaks the rules brilliantly >> to take us to the next level. >> >> And I'm not necessarily referring to >> photographers providing their own "verse" with their "imagery." >> I'm rather thinking about the power of Weston's daybooks, >> Minor Whites years at Aperture, Life and Look magazines, >> Avedon and Baldwin's "Nothing Personal," etc. >> >> (I'm also referring to words and pictures working together >> in the form of great posters >> <http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/small/6_01_sm.jpg> >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago8.jpg>, >> words in paintings, etc.) > p://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> On Aug 26, 2010, at 7:08 PM, Oliver Bryk wrote: >> >>> It's an interesting subject. I have yet to find an objective >>> criterion for >>> "well composed". I will, however, allow that whenever I have >>> picked up a >>> book of very good photographs, each of which was accompanied by the >>> photographer's verse, I did not buy the book. By contrast I enjoy >>> my copy >>> of >>> Mary Austin's "Land of Little Rain" with Ansel Adams's >>> photographs whose >>> legends repeat a line or a phrase from her text. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information