Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Who cares? I'm an American, making photographs of American people and places, just like Jim is. One has to have some minimal understanding of the culture and history of the place that you see in any documentary type photograph, no matter who took it or where it was taken, to fully understand the photograph. I see photos of other countries (where English or Spanish are not the native languages) and I probably don't 'get' the whole message in many of them. Doesn't make them bad pictures. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 4/22/12 5:07 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >"As of 2011, about 5.5 billion out of the approximate 6.92 billion people >on >Earth do not speak English as either a first language or a second >language. >"So to those people this image is meaningless. >Which is why my high school photography teacher did not accept those kinds >of pictures; refereeing to them as "bumper stickers". Nor did my college >photography teachers. >A picture is worth thousand words but if its a "picture" of three words >its worth three words. And only to those people who read that language. > >I'd call this picture an extremely poorly executed text orientated sight >gag >which basically thumbs its nose at anybody who gives a rats ass about >photography. > > >- - from my iRabs. >Mark Rabiner >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > > >> From: John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 07:46:04 +0000 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] PESO: No American >> >> That may be the technical side, but what about composition and vision? >> >> john >> >> >> It looks like a machine print from a neg which was underexposed three >>stops. >> >>> >>> Really nice image Jim. I have fond memories of the Minolta Autocord as >>>it is >>> what I cut my teeth on as a trainee wedding photographer back in the >>>early >>> 70's. I remember the studio had a cut out fitted to the viewfinder to >>> indicate >>> the crop for an upright and a view print by blocking off the corners >>>of the >>> frame. Three rolls of 120, and trouble if you broke into the fourth! A >>>slight >>> difference from todays digital shoots. >>> >>> On 22 Apr 2012, at 04:56, Jim Shulman wrote: >>> >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/no+american+sm.jpg.html >>>> >>>> Minolta Autocord, Tmax 100 >>>> >>>> Jim Shulman >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information