Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted , What is the mailing address of "Photo Techniques" Thanks ..Harry - -----Original Message----- From: David Medley <dmedley@whidbey.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Multiple Exposures w/ M6 & M3 >Ted, > >Hey, I like that. All those old, bad shots that I trashed - I should have >saved and sold as "art". Maybe I got out of the business too soon! >BTW ............... don't get too far from that Scotch ........... we are >all going to need it soon. > >To keep this on subject (kinda, maybe) and in reverence to the above and >below, I would urge all readers of this post to find a copy of the latest >Photo Techniques magazine. (February 1998) Check out David Vestal's column >"The High Art of Transcendentalizing". I have been a fan of his through a >number of magazines and he is a Leica shooter of many years. (There, how is >that for going back on topic)? Vestal has been editing a manuscript written >by the late Ralph Steiner and this column is but one chapter of what I hope >will become a published book. > >Years ago I took a workshop from Minor White. I went away from that >experience shaking my head and having absolutely no idea what the man was >telling me. For years I have thought that I was just too young to >understand the "master" and that I would grow with time. I never did grow >to understand Minor but I was vindicated somewhat when I read a quote in >this column from Paul Caponigro, another accomplished man with a camera and >a friend of Minor's. "Head for the nebulae, Minor, they can't corner you >there." Somehow, I think Ralph Steiner would approve of "Artsy-Fartsy". It >puts it all in the right perspective. > > > >Cheers, >David Medley >Whidbey Is. WA >USA >dmedley@whidbey.net > >---------- >> From: ted grant <75501.3002@compuserve.com> >> To: INTERNET:leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Multiple Exposures w/ M6 & M3 >> Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 12:00 PM >> >> <<<I think I understand "artsy" ................ >> >> What the hell does "fartsy" look like and is it anything like "Bokeh"? >> >> >> David, >> >> Merely a phrase from the weird world of "strange art" generally created >by >> using an M camera on lomg exposures and swing the camera back and forth >> during the exposure! :) >> >> ted