[Leica] Re: photography today is GARBAGE

[FELIXMATURANA at telefonica.net (Félix López de Maturana)]

>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


Dogmatism, intolerance or a photographic taliban?

Felix
"El que calla, otorga...