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Subject: [Leica] Looking at pictures
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue Sep 16 16:10:27 2008
References: <20080916010637.25664BBF@resin17.mta.everyone.net> <2FD2AB7B-B783-41B1-808F-4359671BBA73@mac.com> <5084B81C-FF8A-428E-B4D7-6207F4040BFD@telefonica.net>

On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Lluis Ripoll wrote:

> George,
>
> You have put really interesting questions, maybe would be very long  
> to comment; probably the pictures are a projection of our own  
> sensibility, it seems to me that I want to show something that is  
> disapearing ... or is for ever, a human side and a reflection about  
> different things, always a research for the inside beauty. Maybe  
> photography is becoming for me an exercise as it was for Marcel  
> Proust "La recherche du temps perdu" (I don't know in English, sorrry.

maybe something like "sentimental remembrances of the past ..."  very  
loosely, with my interpolation...

I thing you are right Lluis...your images capture and document a  
fleeting essence of a slowly disappearing way of life...
>
>
> I can't continue, I should go to sleep...

et des bons reves...

Steve

>
>
> All the best!
> Lluis
>
>
> El 16/09/2008, a las 18:05, Lottermoser George escribi?:
>
>> An interesting and tough comment.
>>
>> great questions:
>> "what are you trying to say?"
>> I wonder if attempting to verbalize what a photographer or an image  
>> "is trying to say" diminishes the visual message.
>> "is the subject strong?"
>> visually?
>> conceptually?
>> historically?
>> politically?
>> socially?
>> stylistically?
>> ?
>>
>> Great photographs fall into so many different genres, use so many  
>> different styles, methods, levels of craft and art ? yet, all great  
>> ones present a confluence of design elements, content, subject,  
>> light, sense of moment and personal point of view ? so as to  
>> produce some kind of magical visual message ? in a manner quite  
>> different from paintings, drawings or other visual mediums.  
>> Photographs seem to hang between representational paintings  
>> (drawings) and poetry. YMMV
>>
>> I agree that the white wall element on the left pulls the eye away.
>> And that good photographs [do reach] for more than [mere]  
>> representation.
>>
>> Fond regards,
>> George
>>
>> george@imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:06 AM, Alastair Firkin wrote:
>>
>>> For me this ticks the boxes: what are you trying to say/show, is  
>>> the subject strong, is the composition good, are there  
>>> distractions (here the white wall back left is pulling my eye from  
>>> the action and would be cropped). Good images should be more than  
>>> representations although the latter also has a role in history.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Alatair
>>>
>>> --- luisripoll@telefonica.net wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll@telefonica.net>
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: [Leica] Looking at pictures
>>> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:23:43 +0200
>>>
>>> With IIIF, Elmar 4/90, TX
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/08070407.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are always appreciated,
>>>
>>> Saludos cordiales
>>> Lluis
>>>
>>>
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