Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>People have been keen to dismiss the work in various ways and I thanks >you for being honest in the way you label it (as you see it). But if it >really is just snaps, shouldn't we all just be able to reproduce such >shots? Dog or no dog? >Stuart Phillips We all should, but obviously none of us ever has. (Or I suppose that our pictures would be currently featured on Leica's site.) The comment that "anybody could do it" is common to a certain kind of disparaging art criticism that has been applied to everybody from Picasso to Ornette Coleman, though obviously there has only been one of each. In my poetic moments I imagine with a smile all of the lost cubist masterpieces and plastic saxophones lying forgotten in the penumbra of dusty suburban closets... Guy - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html