Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/27
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On 27 Oct 2000, Robert Appleby wrote, at least in part:
> I remember reading where Cornell Capa said they took his brother's
> picture of the spanish civil war shooting to Japan, thinking it
> was a picture with absolutely universal significance and they just
> didn't get it. How would Winogrand's picture of the bear biting
> his cage go down in Saudi Arabia, or a Mapplethorpe fistf..k?
> (Note the tactful excision of offending u and offending c). I
> think everything about a still picture is context and culture
> dependent. So there. Please, Roger, let's be at loggerheads! No?
> Oh alright then.... Rob.
Lissen here, Rob, I was arguing wit Alan, and now you pop in to
shore him up. Don't nobody out there agree wit me? 8^)
When you get right down to it, as long as cultures vary,
markedly, in various areas of the world, an extensive film clip
(more like a feature movie) would be necessary to explain it to
the locals. In any given area or areas assuming similar mores, I
still say that the still photo can, and, just as often, does contain
all that is necessary to stand by itself.
Ok, loggerheads it is!
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Roger
mailto:roger@beamon.org
Thought for the day:
Success occurs in private,
failure in full view.