Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] snapshot definition, (was: a thread that needs to die )
From: George Day <george@rdcinteractive.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 12:59:16 -0800

Sure.  And if you can't tell the difference between a cartier-bresson "snap
shot" and what we're talking about here, that's a problem.

Whatever happened to common sense.

on 12/7/01 11:54 AM, Wang, Albert at Albert.Wang@ibx.com wrote:

> Nice Sonny! :)
> 
> I'm just a wacko LDS nonsmoking, nondrinking kinda nice sort of feller
> running around Philly with screw mounts and the R4 :)
> 
> by the way, isn't the snapshot considered art photography according to HCB?
> 
> Alfie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SonC (Sonny Carter) [mailto:sonc@sonc.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 2:33 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] snapshot definition, (was: a thread that needs to
> die)
> 
> 
> 
> From: "Steve Barbour"
> 
> re:     Snapshot NOUN: 1. A photograph taken with a small hand-held
> camera.
> 
>> Hi Son........so if Leicas were the size of their price tag, a photo
>> would never be a snapshot...??!   Steve
> 
> Hah!   I dunno, it all blurs to me.  As I posted yesterday, we have a
> good deal of so-called "art photography" here that no one ever asks to
> see.  They are far more interested in the shots of baptisms in the
> river, washday at the plantation, and shots of Front Street
> Natchitoches.
> 
> Obviously, a dictionary is only a description of the use of the
> language, but as I have said several times before, most of my shots
> fall into the catagory of snapshots.  High end snapshots, I hope; I
> don't ever go out intending to shoot art.
> 
> I'm just a Red-neck Cherokee with a couple of Leicas, taking pictures
> of the life of my town.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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