Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I like to take photographs; I don't like to read about them. > There are a few names I recognize, but I'm not a great > worshiper of other > photographers. No two photographers are the same, and while > I admire the > work of others, that doesn't mean that looking at their work would > necessarily make mine any better. It's a matter of talent, > not imitation. > ######## > Not to be rude, but this may be the most inane in a longggggg line of utterly inane posts. Saying that not looking at - studying - the work of other photographers is like a writer saying that he doesn't read the works of other writers because he couldn't possibly learn anything from them, a painter's saying she had never studied art history or been to a museum, or a psychologist saying that he had never read the basic works on psychology. Looking at/studying the works of great photographers will only turn you into a copycat if you have no imagination, intelligence, or vision of your own.........oh......never mind.