The commonness of images in the digital age has cheapened images in general. You once had to buy a magazine to look at amazing photography. The problem is that the world moves on and even if you could reproduce this look it would be a niche "style".
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:58 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > Gorgeous George would have been on the downhill side of his career by the > time I came along, and I wouldn't have seen these images except maybe going > through old magazines in the library stacks. > > Still, there's magic in those old B&W images I think we've lost with > digital. I know you can make B&W images from digital, I've done it myself > ... but it's just not the same. > > And I think we've lost something with the demise of magazines like "Life" & > "Look". "People" (nor any of its competitors) just does not have the same > weight & dignity. > > > From: Ann Sanfedele > >> I'm sure I saw that LOOK Magazine when I was 12 years old as my parents >> bought it all the time ... most of the photos, though, were >> not anything I would have seen growing up there in person... though I >> remember who Gorgeous George was. I was horrified by >> boxing and wrestling. >> >> ann >> >> Keith Whaley wrote: >> >>> > John Sessoms wrote: >>> > >>>> >>>> >> From: Bruce Walker >>>> >> >>>>> >>>>> >>> ?Before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star >>>>> >>> photojournalist. In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to >>>>> >>> Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called ?Chicago City of >>>>> >>> Contrasts.? >>>>> >>> - Chicago Tribune >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> Some really terrific shots here ... >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> http://goo.gl/rJ7WP >>>> >>>> >> >>> >>> > Yes they are. >>> > >>>> >>>> >> Izzat Gorgeous George I spy? >>> >>> > >>> > Yup. That was "My Summer in Chicago" as I was attending Great Lakes >>> > Naval Training Center. Brings back a lot of memories... >>> > >>> > keith whaley >>> > > > -- > 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
