Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If my photographs only showed me I'd already seen - flat, without the smell
and the noise, and stripped of the sense of a rushing moment in the time of
their own making - I'd have quit in boredom a long time ago. It's the wonder
in a camera's capacity to catch something I could never have seen in that
moment, the discovery of some chance combination of form and light, a lucky
combination of expression and gesture, that keeps me at it. My favorites of
my own photographs are ones I look at and think 'I don't remember it that
way at all'.
And about Hockney, even though he got a lot of mileage with those polaroid
mosaics, that idea was developed and pursued to more interesting ends by
preceding photographers. The attitude he expresses towards photo is the one
that most painters of his generation espoused, and should be written off as
an arrogant commonplace that workers in that medium always used to hold
about the other.
----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Unsworth <lug at steveunsworth.co.uk>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Fri, October 23, 2009 4:25:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] iso 100.000+??
"It's a one eyed man looking through a hole" David Hockney
Steve
On 22/10/09 22:04, "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Photography is a higher form of pointing" - Johnny Deadman
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