Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric - I couldn't agree more that one doesn't do someone any favors by being "polite," rather than honest, when asked to comment on any form of art. However...There's honest and honest. Under normal circumstances I would never call someone's work "Crap"-which I did in this case - even if I felt it was. B. D. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Eric Welch > Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 11:56 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica-Users List Digest V3 #365 > > > At 09:46 AM 10/14/98 -0400, you wrote: > > >photos - the rection would have been infinitely more factful and > polite, if > >not necessarilly more positive. > > Yeah, that's probably right. He deserved hard criticism. But > then, he ought > to count himself lucky. We were honest, not polite. Politeness in photo > critiques hardly helps photographers improve. It can, if not used in > moderation, cause them to be complacent. > > Note Shutterbug Magazine. Lots of photos in that magazine (not ALL!) are > terrible. Some technically so. Yet the goal for them isn't > probably art. Or > they wouldn't be writing a techie article to start with. No? > > This guy was an "artist." Letting himself open to a lot of > "interpretation." > -- > > Eric Welch > St. Joseph, MO > http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > "What a waste it is to lose one's mind -- or not to have a mind. How true > that is." > -Dan Quayle addressing the United Negro College Fund >