Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Nov 2, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > Hmm. Well I would always avoid any socio/political discussion in a > photography group. I'll let Ansel adams comment. > "No matter how sophisticated you may be, a huge granite mountain > cannot be > denied-it speaks in silence to the very core of your being." > For me you cannot stand where that man stood and not be moved. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/u/y/Ye1.jpg.html magnificent Hoppy, Steve > > > > 2009/11/2 slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov at charter.net> > >> Well, he did have a point with that. >> But photographing a landscape in the US is a socio/political >> statement to >> begin with, Teddy so to that. >> Flap his side-walk cafe coffee sipping lips all he wants, HCB was no >> de-Tocqueville! >> But on the other hand, much of that so-called crisis, was >> manufactured by >> colonialism. Of which HCB participated in, profited from, and never >> formally >> renounced. >> S.d. >> >> >> On Nov 1, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: >> >> HCB also said (about Ansel Adams) "Now in this moment, this crisis, >> with >>> the >>> world maybe going to pieces--to photograph a *landscape*!" >>> >>> >>> >>> 2009/11/2 slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov at charter.net> >>> >>> Still, for a one trick pony, HCB held his own quite well. >>>> I think it's a hallmark of the French to make emotivist comments >>>> on what >>>> they know least about. >>>> (And, yes, I lived, and went to school there.) >>>> S.d. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Nov 1, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Peter Cheyne wrote: >>>> >>>> Henri Cartier-Bresson said that if God intended us to use waist- >>>> level >>>> >>>>> finders, He'd have given us eyes in our stomachs. >>>>> As much as I love HCB's sense of form, I think he failed to >>>>> understand >>>>> the >>>>> fun, excitement and sheerly surreptitious advantages >>>>> of using the Rollie. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Cheers >>>>> Geoff >>>>> The new LEICA M9 >>>>> Passion for perfect pictures. >>>>> http://www.m.leica-camera.com >>>>> >>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ >>>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >>>>> >>>> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information