Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard is correct "any good image should be good without words". The idea it is that it's possible, probably, likely that at some point if your image survives, it will not survive in context -- images will be viewed by people who don't speak the language any writing was written in, images may be removed from context and reproduced, we have museums filled with medieval and ancient paintings depicting things art historians can only speculate about -- they're either good paintings or they're not. Your photographs need to be good photographs -- Dorthea Lang's "Migrant Mother" comes to mind -- it doesn't need any text to tell it's story, you can tell by looking at it -- eyes, expressions, the destitute context.... Imagine instead the photo looked like this: http://northshorecollaborativelaw.com/images/two_kids_w_mom.jpg and had the caption "this mother and her children are part of the great exodus caused by the dust bowl, they are seeking work in a migrant camp, their life is very difficult" -- one tells the story by itself, the other needs to be propped up with text to convey the story. This isn't to say that images and text can't go together, or else national geographic would have no words -- but your photos have to be able to still tell their story if the words are stripped away. On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:10 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > and twice the chance of being on as well. > > On Aug 27, 2010, at 2:16 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> To me a person can be in danger of having a delusional ideal of the value >> of >> their images. >> Its also possible they can have great images but be delusional about the >> value of their writing that goes along side these images. >> So that's twice the chance of being off. >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >>> From: Lottermoser George <imagist3 at mac.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:13:27 -0500 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Searching? >>> >>> Perhaps I received Kyle's message "wrong." >>> >>> I certainly agree with your interpretation. >>> >>> >>> On Aug 26, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Richard Man wrote: >>> >>>> I think what you say below is different from what Kyle means. If I may: >>>> any >>>> good image should be good without words, but some images become more >>>> powerful, and perhaps a DIFFERENT image, when paired with the right >>>> words.