Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Talking about good books, I found one few years ago in a flea market that I consider a very good reading for all the Photographers including the Zone System Club and Fine Art Brotherwood(wich I'm member). PHOTOGRAPHY Artistic and Scientific by Robert Johnson and Arthur Brunel Chatwood London, Downey and Co. York Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 1895 In one of the chapters, they wrote: "The aim of the photographer should be to produce by means of his camera, and by the aid of greater or less technical skill, not merely exact and minute copies of the objects wich he photographs, but photographs wich shall be the expression of his feeling and taste, and as such shall be entitled to rank as work of art. We are well aware that very few photographers look on their work from this point of view; they claim the title of Artist, but are ignorant of even the elementary laws of art. An amateur of exceptional technical skill showed us not long ago a negative of wich he was most proud; it had in all the elements wich might with a little taste have made a picture, but he expectd us to admire it only on account of its technical perfection and sharpness. One might read an advertising "Beecham's Pills" standing in the middle of a field some half mile distant. Nothing sounds more actual than this Book from 1895 !! In fact, I think this book is a kind of photography Bible, maybe was wrote by Nostradamus... Sorry about the Size of this email, but I tough I would share this with all my friends from Lug. Regards, Luiz Marinho Sao Paulo - Brasil