Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc-- Voila! My points, and then more and more and more, and so beautifully expressed, exactly. Why do we create imagery in the first place? To be able to see, or to show others, what we see, what we envision, what we imagine, what we sense, what we feel ... to bring something beautiful into the world. Someone mentioned earlier--and I can't remember who it was, there have been so many posts--that photography is a "purely visual" medium. I can't agree with that. When I take my camera out with me to see what I can find, I always bring along all my other at least four senses with me, and then some. How else could we create anything if we did not bring our entire selves to the process? The eyes are not isolated instruments, disconnected from our minds/spirits ... if we don't bring all that we are to the process itself, regardless of the outcome, we are shortchanging ourselves ... and what is most enjoyable about photography? Isn't it the process itself? How we live within it? Happy envisioning ... :) Kit - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Marc Attinasi Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:20 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Autofocus Leica R (thanks Kit) Kit, Thanks for this link and for opening MY eyes to another's vision. A paragraph from that site says a lot about how a blind person can create a visual art: " I photograph what I imagine, you could say I'm a bit like Don Quijote. The originals are inside my head. It is a matter of creating a mental image, the physical record which best represents the work of what is imagined." The desire to express something, anything, either visually or aurally or textually, has more to do with what the artist wants to express than with their own ability to directly interact with their own creation - that is, to see it, hear it or read it. And, regardless of the ability to directly interact with the art, there is always the opportunity to indirectly interact, through the reactions and expressions of the viewers, listeners and readers. Another thing: I posit that not everybody wants to 'improve' their photography. I think it was BD who suggested that a person who could not see their photographs could not learn to improve their photography. The truth of this aside, I think it is wrong to assume that somebody wants to improve their photography. It is quite possible that they want their photographs to be just as they are. I had for many years purposefully NOT learned proper western music theory so that I could create music that is new, alternative and wholly different, unbiased by learned convention. Some critics could not get past my lack of convention, some could. But I was able to create what I wanted to create only by continuing to be 'blind' to the conventional. One could choose such a path with photography, no? Again, thanks for the link, and your always-sensitve and keen comments along this thread. - - marc On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 07:45 PM, Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote: > Just take a gander at this. Explore this artist's site, and then let's > talk. > ;-) > > Kit > > http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/bavcar/bavcar01.html > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html