Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 9:21 PM +0100 3/14/99, Bruce Feldman wrote: >A good photograph does the same thing. It is a suggestion. It is food for >the imagination. It doesn't *have* to be complete in itself; it doesn't >*have* to be optically flawless. These things are often quite irrelevant, >and can even be counterproductive. We see the beaming French boy carrying >the loaves and the wine and our imagination runs wild filling in the blanks: >Urban, working-class France. The family he's going home to -- Mama in the >kitchen, Papa fixing the bicycle. The poverty. The love, the naivete, the >optimism on his face, in the midst of war-torn Europe, etc. We swoon. Bravo Bruce, well said. Tom Thomas Kachadurian WEB PAGE: http://members.aol.com/kachaduria