Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 22, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Mark Rabiner 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. Limiting iconography in the visual arts seems absolutely silly to anyone who gives a rat's ass about art. <http://tinyurl.com/88gfmky> Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist