[Leica] OT: General Photo (non-gear) mailing lists?

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

Daniel,

What I'm interested most, perhaps, is possible photo projects. Many
months back, I recall I had an idea of "beautiful pictures of ugly things."
I posted an OT message to the photo.net Leica forum, and someone
posted a reply pointing out Sally Mann's "What Remains" work, and
I found this somewhat useful.

That kind of thing. Projects, logistics, other photographers' works, what
makes for a good series of photographs and so on. Not aesthetic philosophy
necessarily (although I have a philosophy background and might find that
interesting as well).

And of course, pictures :-)

Scott

Daniel Ridings wrote:

>Scott,
>
>Sometimes I get off-topic, most recently about the peppars.
>
>But when it comes right down to it ... I don't enjoy talking about
>photography. That is kind of a paradox. Here I am on a photography
>list, a written communication list, but I really don't get much out of
>discussing photography. I get sick of the conventional wisdom about
>doing it this way, agitating that way, regurgitating another way.
>There is so much of that, that some 18 year old kid has read in a
>glossy photo magazine and spews up again as if it was acquired
>knowledge from 30 years experience. I can tell decades of experience
>when I run across it, and there are quite a few members on this list
>with that experience. I enjoy their sharing of it. I suspose I am one
>of them as well. I think I processes my first roll of film 40 years
>ago this year, might have been last year.
>
>On the other hand I am like a kid in a candy store when it comes to
>taking pictures, sharing pictures and looking at others' pictures. It
>is an aesthetic experience that I find difficult (and of a
>low-priority) to express in words.
>
>But that's me.
>
>I'm sure if you want to take up generic photographic subjects no one
>would object. It has happened before on this list and there are
>compentent participants. But I think it would be hard to narrow down a
>list to only that subject matter.
>
>Ehhhh ... just go out and read the master, Susan Sonntag :-) :-) :-)
>
>Daniel
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