Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter - >>http://photoethnography.com/gallery/japan2003/index.html > >Karen: These are wonderful! What an antidote to the usual cliches >of neon, businessmen packed into the subway car, people-as-ants on >the streets, and such. It's especially well-timed for me, as I just >saw "Lost In Translation" a few days ago. That was "Japan as >another planet," yours was "Japan is different, but people are >people." Nice going! (And I *liked* the earlier geisha girls on >cell phones). Thanks! I liked _Lost in Translation_ although I wondered if foreigners (ie. Americans) would find it as funny as we did. We were the only people in the theatre, literally rolling on the floor laughing. I think many Americans thought it was non-PC to laugh at the scenes with the Japanese characters (e.g., the whiskey shoot with Bill Murray). >This may sound strange, but some of the "mom and pop" store pictures >reminded me of childhood visits to my grandparents in the Bronx, NY >city, would go shopping with them to all the little independent >Jewish food stores in the neighborhood. Half a world and two or >three generations removed, something about the aura your Japanese >shopkeepers project is very similar to those past memories. Thanks! That was part of my intent. People are people. I guess that's where my vision as an academic anthropologist as well as my visual artist actually do come together. >>I'll be in Japan again this summer, this time for 10 months. My >>research this time will be on disability and education. > >Did you mean 10 months as in sabbatical, or 10 weeks as in summer break? 10 months as in a research sabbatical. I received a grant from the Social Science Research Council to take a year off to do some work. I'm taking a leave of absence from teaching. This will have a much more visual content than my dissertation, where I was still in the closet in regards to being a photographer, as well as ethnographer. >Congratulations on the S2! The quality of the Nikkor 50/1.4 is very >nice--as you say, a bit retro, but for some subjects, just what's >needed. Here's some I took with mine: >http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/currentpics/claire_surreal.htm >http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/currentpics/paula_harpo.htm >http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/marianne.jpg Good shots! I'd try playing with angles, not always centering your subjects and having the backgrounds be exactly perpendicular to you. >I eventually sold my LTM version to help finance some Leica stuff, >but I hope to get similar quality out of the Jupiter-8 I just >inherited, once it comes back from Oleg. Why not get the Contax mount Jupiter-12? It's really a stellar lens, a must-have for any Contax/Nikon mount user: http://photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/Lens-CS.html http://photoethnography.com/gallery/paw2003/index11.html >But *do* stay away from the SP--that could end up a more expensive >habit than Leica! Droool....... if I had a choice between an MP or a SP, I'd have to think veeeeeery long and hard about it. Karen - -- Karen Nakamura http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html