Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aw gee guys I thought somebody might of had mine! ;-) "Real Photographers shoot B&W. Sometimes colour!" OR "Real Photographers shoot B&W. Eat Sushi. And drink single malt Scotch!" ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "charcot" <charcot at comcast.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] was iso 100.000+?? now photo quotes > My favorite quote from either Winogrand or Freidlander is: > > " I photograph things to see what things look like photographed" when > asked why he was a photographer. > > I just joined a photo club and plan on appropriating this phrase for my > artistic statement - because I find artistic statements odious, never > read them ( let the photo speak for itself). No offense to those who > like artists statements. > > ernie nitka > > George Lottermoser wrote: >> ..Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary >> recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was >> nothing there. I just watched it evaporate. You look one moment and >> there's everything, next moment it's gone. Photography is very >> philosophical. - Joel Meyerowitz >> >> All photography is propaganda. - Martin Parr >> >> Photography is universal language; it doesn't need translation. Its >> collective memory is a mirror in which our society continually >> observes itself... - Sebastiao Salgado >> >> Black and white photography is a perfect lie. We must not let colour >> destroy this image. - Patrick Summerfield >> >> Documentary photography is the presentation or representation of >> actual fact in a way that makes it credible and vivid to an audience >> at the time. - David Hurn >> >> For me photography is a form of prayer. - Don Doll >> >> Great photography is always on the edge of failure. - Garry Winogrand >> >> Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. - Garry Winogrand >> >> the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality >> (whatever that is) on film... if, later, the reality means something >> to someone else, so much the better. - Garry Winogrand >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:25 AM, Steve Unsworth wrote: >> >>> "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 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.27/2452 - Release Date: 10/22/09 18:44:00