Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The New York Times recently ran an article about Jerome Delay, chronicling the humanitarian struggles in Mali. What made this particularly interesting, at least to me, that his equipment is utterly simple: one camera, and one 50/1.4 lens. Perusing through his work, the most remarkable aspect of his images is the transparency and immediacy. With the "normal" perspective that the lens provides, it removes all distractions such as geometric distortion, perspective exaggerations, and peeping-tom voyeurism so prevalent on today's pages. These images speak very powerfully, not because of the super-high-tech (which it is) wizardry, but how distractions caused by unnatural perspectives are eliminated. Yet, his works have depth and focus that many other photographers try to create using super-wide or super-tele lenses. Even the crooked horizon in a couple of of the photographs isn't distracting. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/the-lens-is-standard-the-photos-anything-but/ -- Ken Iisaka first name at last name dot org or com