On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks. I don't think that anyone on this list is tempermentally of > taking what most people would consider "just snapshots". Certain > aspects of composition, looking at the background and so forth become > ingrained as to be reflex, rather than conscious, so that where a > non-photographer may just look to make sure that the subject is in the > frame, we'll make at least a first order attempt to compose the shot a > little beyond that. Here's what Gary Winogrand said when asked about the so-called "snapshot aesthetic": "I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs. Everybody's fifteen feet away and smiling. The sun is over the viewer's shoulder. That's when the picture is taken, always. It's one of the most carefully made photographs that ever happened. People are just dumb. They misunderstand." cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
