[Leica] "cutting the edge" with a Leica!

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

I agree, but one can convey 'emotion' with photography in different  
ways: not only in capturing and representing reality IMO.
Thanks,
Philippe



Op 9-dec-07, om 00:22 heeft Ted Grant het volgende geschreven:

> Crew,
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> Actually I find the conversations on this "cutting edge" subject
> interesting, not that I truly and honestly understand exactly what  
> some of
> you lads mean. As I'm not a philosophical type, nor university  
> educated as
> many of you are. Therefore I don't quite catch what you mean because
> photography is something "one does" as apposed to discuss in the word
> fashion of this topic. None the less it's interesting.
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> I think my so called out burst of yesterday was created due to the  
> use of
> the wording. "Cutting edge photography." And my re-action to a few  
> E-pages
> I'd opened expecting to see some incredible new Salgado, Bresson or  
> like
> members of the world in photography. Or maybe some new gifted person's
> photos.
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>
> However, what I thought I was looking at were things "tacked" to a  
> wall or
> floor, then put together in some form of computer imaging system. They
> certainly didn't look like "cutting edge!" Let alone photography  
> I've known
> these many years.
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> In effect the images had absolutely nothing to do with holding a  
> Leica in
> hands and making exposures of the world as many of us have done.
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> When I first went to the National Film Board of Canada as the Assn't
> Executive Producer of the Still Division, art photography of any  
> kind was at
> the bottom of the pit as far as I was concerned. It's where I began  
> my use
> of "Rock & Fern, peeling paint photographer!" And not as a compliment.
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>
>
> But after several months of tutoring by the Director about what  
> worked and
> what didn't as Fine Art Photography, I began to appreciate the  
> finer points
> of Rock and Fern along with a zillion photos of peeling paint. :-)  
> I figure,
> actually I'd bet near everyone on the LUG at sometime or other has  
> shot
> peeling paint! :-)
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>
> I became interested in it and actually shot peeling paint, rocks  
> and ferns
> on many down time relaxing occasions. However it never occurred to  
> me I was
> doing anything "cutting edge" even though it was the absolute  
> opposite type
> of photography I'd done for so long.
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> I don't believe any of us start out thinking we're going to create  
> great
> images to move the feelings of people in the world. Quite frankly I  
> suppose
> there are some who have mega-ego's believing that's what their  
> photography
> does. No time for that kind!
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> But "feeling" is what photography is all about, good, bad or ugly!  
> We as
> photographers feel in our gut, this is the moment. click! The  
> results create
> feelings in so many ways it's unpredictable what re-actions our  
> exposure may
> create.
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> The bottom line in all of this is how each of us relate to the  
> visuals of
> another and no one, especially me, has the right to rant like an  
> idiot about
> a topic that comes before the family.
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> Don't know if this has anything to do with cutting edge  
> photography, but it
> does have something to do with feelings!
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> Carry on lads.
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> ted
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