Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, be sure I do respect your point of view, your opinion and your right to photograpth whatever you like and feel right to do. Perhaps I just should have to shut up and let you to convey your point of view responding to Jayanand, sorry. Now, reading your foreword on your site I realize your truly intentions so that the visitor will be better to read it first before going over the images, then it probaly make a proper perspective of your vision. My vision and perception are different which is also fine. I would shoot in US, I'm sure one can find a truly authentic views in any countries if looking for such, even in most economically developed ones, but I'd indeed like to balance the view. That does not necessary means shopping malls, car culture and high-tech streams, but probably people taking rest at the sea beaches, enjoying in cafe while street life passes by, a tired solders making their way home after several weeks of service strain, all that along an old people whose face wrinkles hint about vast life experience they probably went through, kids playing in narrow and dusty street of old and antique parts of cities... Well, that would be my personal view, but its just me and everyone has the full right to have different opinion and point of view so be it. Alex Jayanand Eric Boehm, Jr wrote: >Alex, > >Another thing I would like to say. As a photographer, I am after >STORIES. The older the face the deeper the story. It's as simple as >that. Poverty is photogenic precisely because people who have access >to computers, who go to museums, who buy Leicas are not poor. Also, >for me, photographing inside an air conditioned shopping mall, taking >pictures of the housewife with her kids shopping, or the corpulent >masses consuming electronics, for me leaves me empty. Taking photos of >the known is not what I am after. That is why I do not shoot in >America. For me there is nothing to photograph. Call me crazy, but >that is my view of reality. > >Eric Boehm > >On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Alex <alex@zabrovsky.com> wrote: > > >>I visited Eric's site and enjoyed the images but that is exactly the >>feeling >>I got looking at the pictures. >>While the images do convey a mood of Israel, it does only one, probably not >>the most prominent one, kind of niche rather then the whole feeling of >>Israeli life and reality. >>Luckily being Israeli and knowing the inside of local life I can position >>properly Eric's images in my perception of Israeli life, population and >>reality, but for a foreigner, claiming the particular Israeli set to convey >>the general Israeli mood may be obviously somewhat misleading.. >>I guess, this is just as Eric saw Israel, the places and locations he was >>able to visit and photograph, which is fine, but it certainly doesn't >>represent the Israel in the whole, perhaps its 20-30%... >> >>Best, Alex >>Israel >> >>Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: >> >> >> >>>Eric, >>>I really enjoyed the photographs, but I would like to ask a question - is >>>Israel a country populated primarily by old people? >>>Cheers >>>Jayanand >>> >>>On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Eric Boehm, Jr <eboehmjr@gmail.com> >>>wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Dear Lugites, >>>> >>>>Just set up my website at http://www.streetphotographyisrael.com/. >>>>Would love to get feedback from Leica users interested in street >>>>photography. I have always used film and still do to some extent. When >>>>the digital craze hit some years ago, and anyone could produce a >>>>decent photograph without all the toil in the darkroom, I lost >>>>interest and moved on to other things. Setting up this website however >>>>brought me back to my first love, photography. Does anyone still use >>>>film? Does anyone still shoot with the M6 in any of its versions? >>>> >>>> >>>>Eric W.A. Boehm, PhD >>>>Assistant Professor, Microbiology >>>>Department of Biological Sciences >>>>Kean University, 1000 Morris Ave. >>>>Union, NJ 07083 >>>>908-737-3654 >>>>eboehm@kean.edu >>>> >>>>Research Website: http://www.eboehm.com/ >>>>Photography Website: http://www.streetphotographyisrael.com/ >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > > > >