Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You're making it all too cerebral - your first reaction, what was it? Then you started thinking A simile; how do you like wine? Ph ----Message d'origine---- >De: Lottermoser George <imagist3@mac.com> >Sujet: Re: [Leica] Some more 'cutting the edge' >Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 15:04:10 -0600 >A: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > > >On Dec 8, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Steve Barbour wrote: >> and I can see why George... but for me this shows us a one trick >> pony... > >Did you look at his other galleries? If you do, you may find an >photographer who explores deeply a number of different subjects. I >appreciate his numerous explorations for their photographic qualities >as well as their aesthetic appeal. > >> if the artists vision is so acute, why does upside down make it >> better...? > >The fact that his interiors are lit by a pinhole in a window makes >the images photographically accurate in two ways. I find that simple, >elegant, eloquent and absolutely fascinating - visually. > >> or is it only because it is different, and therefore grabs >> attention...? > >For me "different" doesn't grab my attention. The photographic >accuracy and beauty grabs my attention and holds it long enough for >me to feel myself in the room for these extremely long exposures >which reveal all the subtle details of both the room's interior and >the world outside the room. The concept of making a room into a >camera and standing within that camera-room and photographing it with >a view camera which itself is a tiny room quite like the room I'm >standing in - well - it's all quite photographically marvelous and >beautiful. The individual prints express a remarkable sensibility to >time and space, architecture and more. > >Regards, >George Lottermoser >george@imagist.com >www.imagist.com >Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > ------------------------------------------------------------- Noos, votre bureau virtuel sur Internet : Mail... Web : webmail.noos.fr