Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13

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Subject: [Leica] photography today is GARBAGE
From: jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Wed Jul 13 11:09:43 2005
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Somebody's cranky! >:-o


At 11:08 AM 7/13/2005, you wrote:
>All I look at and all I see today is these kids with their wizbangs 
>who don't understand CRAP about emulsions or how to mix up a batch 
>of hypo and all their photos are CRAP pictures of idiots on 
>skateboards and young women (??????) with metal things in their 
>faces, this isn't photography, it's GARBAGE. These people should be 
>in JAIL. I have to ask: WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS? If my daughters had 
>ever come home looking like that, my wife and I would have taken 
>care of it QUICK. The great photographers, Seieglitz, Eisendstaedt, 
>Cartier-Bresson, Lewis Hine, Smith (who was GENE to me), wouldn't 
>tolerate this, so why are we? These people don't understand anything 
>about capturing the MOMENT, all they care about is where they're 
>going to get their next DRUG HIGH. EOS stands for BRAIN DEAD, and 
>NIKON stands for CRAP. The F was a good camera and then they were FINISHED.
>
>I take my cameras out and I make PHOTOGRAPHS, the camera i use, 
>LEICA, makes me THINK about the photographs before I take them. I 
>compose them in my mind, and capture them on film, and then I 
>develop this film and PRINT it in my DARKROOM. Today's kids brains 
>have been destroyed by auto-idiot cameras and they don't understand 
>anything. Which is why their "photographs" are so bad. The so called 
>"digital" is not photography. PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE CREATION OF AN 
>IMAGE ON FILM. My Leica cameras will last for another one-hundred 
>years, and if I am not around to use them, then my grandchildren 
>will use them and they will be just as capable as producing 
>PHOTOGRAPHS then as they are now.
>
>I'm glad many of you have been waiting for someone to say this.
>
>George
>
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