RE: [Leica] beauty

[Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>]

Mark,
I'm not into excluding 'beauty' (whatever that might mean for anyone) I
merely want to explore visually.
If we can find new ways of presenting beauty, it beats having it
reprocessed. If we succeed in that, it makes it easier to understand for
more people, as most people like pretty, rather than ugly.
I have a love for bitter-sweet. My wife criticises my desire to listen to
mournful singers/music. She likes 'happy'. I think that for me to appreciate
the range of emotions and tones in life, I need the sad, the bitter, the
ugly, to play against the pretty, happy, beauty elements.

Jem

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> From: 	Mark Rabiner[SMTP:mrabiner@concentric.net]
> Reply To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Sent: 	17 February 2000 12:33
> To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: 	Re: [Leica] beauty
> 
> Jeremy Kime wrote:
> ><Snip> 
> > 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.
> ><Snip> 
> 
> I'm into beauty. If that translates into "pretty pictures" then there's no
> avoiding it.
> Pretty people, pretty scenes. In a lot of ways perhaps I'm not real deep.
> Mark Rabiner
>