Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:14 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I find Szarkowski eloquent above all else. He's my favorite photo writer. >> From: Christopher Saganich <csaganich at gmail.com> >> >> Eggleston is interesting, he is non-Descartes, not existential, but >> focused >> on remembering the familiar. He is factual but is mostly driven by >> composition and light. Reminds me mostly of Plato's idea that we forget >> or >> overlook the obvious, that our history is forgetting the familiar. >> I wish I >> has Szarkowski's foward for the Eggleston Guide. Szarkowski's introduction to Eggleston <http://www.egglestontrust.com/guide_intro.html> his conclusion: "As pictures, however, these seem to me perfect: irreducible surrogates for the experience they pretend to record, visual analogues for the quality of one life, collectively a paradigm of a private view, a view one would have thought ineffable, described here with clarity, fullness, and elegance." Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist