Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] GeeBees' PAW Week 28
From: "animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 11:44:36 +0200
References: <1FD78239-9C66-11D6-8AC1-003065D4DE46@mac.com>

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From: "Allan Wafkowski" <allanwafkowski@mac.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] GeeBees' PAW Week 28


> You crazy, wild sinner! This shot is straight-on Pictorialism and I love 
> it.
> 
> Years ago, when pictorialism was gong out of fashion, being replaced 
> with newspaper photography (a.k.a. documentary photography), this type 
> of composition would have been called contrived. One would hope that in 
> today's climate of distorted plastic lenses, uneven horizontals without 
> purpose, out-of-focus images, gratuitous fat asses as subjects, and the 
> other "arty" things that make the current stockpot of modern 
> photography, there are none foolish enough to criticize a very well done 
> pictorialist image. Actually, what makes it fun is that those self-same 
> foolish people are at the rudder of photography at this very moment. My 
> only hope is that you will title it. If only to see the old farts' 
> blood-o-pumping.
> 
> Allan
> 
> 
> geebeespaw wrote:
> > Ever the rebel I have now switched from bottom
> > left subjects to bottom right subjects I don't know where this 
> > rebellion is
> > going to end, I am now storing my 'Milk of Magnesia' in a hot damp 
> > place :-)
> >
> > http://www.geebeephoto.com/html/sywell_21.html
> >
> > Graham
> 
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Gave me a happy feeling .thanks .simon


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