Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/06

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Subject: [Leica] NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE & PHOTOGRAPHY.
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:53:10 -0600
References: <796o8r$3gc5kd@pd2mo1so-svcs.prod.shaw.ca>

This fellow's blanket statements
come off as ridiculous blather;
without any knowledge of art or photographic history:

"Film photography's artistic cachet was always that no matter how  
much darkroom fiddling someone added to a photograph, the picture  
was, at its core, a record of something real that occurred in front  
of the camera."
?B.S. Darkroom manipulation and traditional retouching went every bit  
as far as Photoshop.
"Art and truth used to be fast friends."
?B.S. The best Art speaks truthfully; trash art lies and always has.  
Fine photoshopped photographs can express life's truth(s) or become  
nonsensical hype; just as paintings, illustrations, literature and  
other so called arts always have.
Portrait studios have been sticking people in front of fake  
backgrounds for a hundred years.
"The next great photographers?if there are to be any?will have to  
find a way to reclaim photography's special link to reality. And  
they'll have to do it in a brand-new way."
?talk about oxymoronic!?

The truth(s) of the human condition, expressed through:
music, sculpture, film, painting, drawing, poetry, literature,  
editorial cartoons, graphic novels
traditional film, digital or experimental photography
rely on the insight, intuition, integrity and vision of the art's  
creator;
and has nothing whatever to do with the medium of choice.
The viewer/listener of the art knows if the message rings true for them,
no matter how it was created.

This writer should have done some research into his subject
and then maybe could have used his column inches
to enlighten us on much of the brilliant work being done today
(as well as historically)
by photojournalists, fine art photographers, printmakers
and yes even re-touchers and photoshop artists.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Mar 4, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> http://www.newsweek.com/id/73349
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> Have a look at this Newsweek story about photography. Rather  
> interesting and
> will probably create an interesting conversation.
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> ted
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In reply to: Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE & PHOTOGRAPHY.)