Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Objective criteria for visual art, music or literature is certainly hard to come by. Someone always breaks the rules brilliantly to take us to the next level. And I'm not necessarily referring to photographers providing their own "verse" with their "imagery." I'm rather thinking about the power of Weston's daybooks, Minor Whites years at Aperture, Life and Look magazines, Avedon and Baldwin's "Nothing Personal," etc. (I'm also referring to words and pictures working together in the form of great posters <http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/small/6_01_sm.jpg> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago8.jpg>, words in paintings, etc.) Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Aug 26, 2010, at 7:08 PM, Oliver Bryk wrote: > It's an interesting subject. I have yet to find an objective > criterion for > "well composed". I will, however, allow that whenever I have picked > up a > book of very good photographs, each of which was accompanied by the > photographer's verse, I did not buy the book. By contrast I enjoy > my copy of > Mary Austin's "Land of Little Rain" with Ansel Adams's photographs > whose > legends repeat a line or a phrase from her text.