Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/21
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Alan Hull wrote:
>But at least they tried. The experiment failed for
>technical reasons not for aesthetic.
Ansel Adams failed? People will probably still be buying reproductions
of his photos long after I'm dead and gone...
If you consider "failure" to be that other photographers moved onto
different techniques such as abstraction, then the baroque style of
painting which you seek to emulate ("cheezy", as an art prof. eloquently
described it once) is dead and rotting. Does it invalidate it as an art
form? Hardly. If you like it, by all means, tape your aperture rings
down at f/16 and click away.
In terms of the harsh responses your original post elicited from the
group, you must realize that your post was rather insistent, to put it
kindly. When you tell a couple hundred successful professional
photographers and accomplished amateurs that their photography basically
sucks, how can you expect not be flamed?