Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You have coined a great term for the type of photography you describe....."anti-photography." To the trained eye, it appears to have been shot by a 1 year old or, at best, a 5 year old. Nonetheless, some of the proponents of this new artform spend time, as most of us do, to create "something different." I myself don't waste time trying to create "anti-photos," but I certainly leave my mind open to them as viable artistic creations. This style seems to be quite popular nowadays, as does anti-establishment modern art of any kind. It is a force to be reckoned with, to say the least. I, for one, actually like and admire some of the creative techniques some of these photographers use, and though it sometimes seems they are shooting blindly and creating outtakes, they are most likely spending as much time creating their "masterpieces" as most of us LUGgers do. At 08:07 AM 6/2/98 , Donal Philby wrote: >LUGnuts, >Yesterday ran across a promo piece by a young photographer I know >slightly, just out of school. Had 8 pix on a fold out. And not a one >that was about anything, at least in my aesthetic. They were the current >trend of anti-photos, I suppose, no particular composition, the snapshot >look, bad exposure and lighting. No POWER. No belief. No passion. >Just a here's a picture of john looking at the camera. I guess she is >starting to get a lot of jobs, so maybe I don't understand. But they >look like self indulgence to me, taking by someone interested more in >themselves than in the outside world. The same kind of pix beginning to >show up in the trendy travel mags like Conde Nast Traveler. > >donal >-- >Donal Philby >San Diego >http://www.donalphilby.com >