Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/25

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Subject: [Leica] Walker Evans--digital reproductions
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Fri Aug 25 07:59:26 2006
References: <C1146610.1AE4%Engl6914@cableone.net>

Lee,
The reviewer is a pretentious twerp IMHO.  In the first paragraphs he admits
that Walker Evans wasn't especially interested in the printing of the
images.  So, if a later person comes along and finds another story in the
images then so what? (Assuming the pedigree of the images is clearly
stated)  What I got out of the reviewer was angst that the actual image
could be gorgeous even though the content frequently was depressing.

The truth of photography is that it is the peoples medium and the folks do
what they will with the images.  As a photographer, the only way to control
your images is to destroy the originals when you are done with them.
Otherwise, someone else may come along and re interpret what you did or
didn't do.

If you have a problem with loss of control then take up painting, but even
there someone may come along a few hundred years later and "restore" the
painting ala the Cistine Chapel.

0.02

Don
don.dory@gmail.com

On 8/25/06, Lee England <Engl6914@cableone.net> wrote:
>
> An interesting article I ran into in this morning's New York Times on an
> exhibit of digital reproductions of Walker Evan's prints and the problems
> associated with their interpretation.
>
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/arts/design/25evan.html
>
> Lee England
> Natchez, Mississippi
>
>
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