Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:48 PM 12/1/97 -0500, you wrote: > > If we were to admire Henri Cartier-Bresson for his supposed technique, > we should be disappointed to learn that it was something other than we > had been led to believe. But a great photographer is not the one with > a great technique, but the one who produces great photographs whatever > his technique may happen to be. And I know of no photographer who has > produced greater photographs than Cartier-Bresson. This I have to disagree with. If a person claims their photos are of "real life" that is, unposed unmanipulated situations, and then it turns out that they aren't, then those photos lose their value. Eddie Adams' picture of General Lo killing the man in Vietnam would have no impact at all if the "dead" guy turned up as the cook in the General's pizza parlor in Washington D.C. years later. Technique, when it comes to photojournalism, is one thing. Art, well, that's another thing. As long as it doesn't pretend to be something it's not. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch When there's a will, I want to be in it.