Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Cicadas droning
From: "Julian Thomas" <mimesis@btinternet.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:24:33 -0000
 
 search for the, until then,
> unexposed.
> I see no acheivement in recreating something which has been done, I see
> everything in finding one's own personal vision of the world. To be aware
of
> one's visual interests but not driven by them, to have an awareness of the
> history of the medium but not tied to it, to create something of oneself,
> rather than of another, is what my understanding of photography is all
> about.

Jem,
I love the way you phrased this! It is why, for me, Sherman misses the
point.

Julian