Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/27

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Subject: [Leica] Searching?
From: leicaslacker at gmail.com (kyle cassidy)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:37:27 -0400
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I don't think we're in disagreement -- I think any of those photos
work without the text -- as is evidenced by the "best of life
magazine" book we all probably have that has many of the magazines
beautiful images without their accompanying stories, but with the
articles & words they are made stronger. the words don't prop up the
image, rather they augment them.

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:33 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> 
wrote:
> 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.)
p://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.
>
>
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