Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/06

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Subject: [Leica] what are the most important aspects of a photographic image?
From: lists at mcclary.net (Harrison McClary)
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:33:41 -0600
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Agreed totally on Eggelston.  I have never understood the appeal of 
mediocrity his photos have.  I had a teacher in college who loved his 
work and used it in class constantly.  I never did "get it". But most of 
the stuff that falls into the "art" category I do not get either.  As my 
cousin, who went to RIT, used to joke.  "Shoot it out of focus paint it 
red and call it art."   Seems to work for many.....

Calling bad photography art means no longer does it have to be good, it 
just means those who don't like it are illiterate morons.

Harrison



On 01/05/2011 09:05 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> But then I cannot see what drives
> people to like William Eggleston or Diane Arbus either, to name a
> couple of acclaimed photographers. The former seems to revel in taking
> meaningless snapshots, while the latter is so exploitative that it
> revolts me!



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