Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I came across the following explanation by Garry Winogrand when asked why his images were tilted. "What tilted? There's a tilt only if you believe that the horizon must be parallel to the horizontal edge. That's arbitrary." Pitak > > At 11:45 PM 2/14/00 +0100, you wrote: > > The exhibit was accompanied by some learned writeups explaining > >how the topics were trivial but the photographs very deep, but I guess I > >am just to plain and uneducated to "get it". > > > >Nathan > > Nathan - > > I know exactly what you mean! The curator of a photographic exhibit of > blurred, tilted, poorly printed photographs once told me condescendingly > that the works were purposely "unaccessible" to the majority of > people. BULL! It may make the "artist" feel superior to produce works > that no one understands, but if they don't communicate anything, they are > worthless worthless to me. > > Leically > > Tina > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com > - -- Pitak Chenkosol, Dept. Electrical Eng.,| " I was born not knowing and have Portland State University, | only had a little time to change P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751. | that here and there." E-mail: pitakc@ee.pdx.edu | Richard P. Feynman