Re: [Leica] Photographic people

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

I agree that's the point he is trying to make.  The second sentence, "So if
sensitivity is lacking, there can be something barbaric about it." says it
for me.

Mike D

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Walkden" <bob@web-options.com>
To: "Adam Bridge" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Photographic people


> Hi,
>
> He's saying that we should be sensitive when we photograph
> people. That's all.
>
> ---
>
>  Bob
>
> mailto:bob@web-options.com
>
> Friday, July 13, 2001, 6:08:06 PM, you wrote:
>
> > on 7/13/01 8:42 AM, Leica Users digest at
> > owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us thoughtfully wrote:
>
> >> "There is something appalling about photographing people. It is
certainly
> >> some form of violation. So if sensitivity is lacking, there can be
> >> something barbaric about it."
>
> > I suppose the same can be said about inept writers.
>
> > Creating any portrait is as much about the photographer as the subject.
> > After all, you have to SEE. Better, you have to SEE and have a form of
> > communication with the subject, perhaps that communication is a certain
> > empathy, perhaps from a spoken dialog, perhaps subliminal.
>
> > Is observing humankind a violation?
>
> > I don't think so. I think it's a reaching out, a search to understand,
to
> > reveal.
>
> > Sure, some revelations can be unkind and even cruel. And some can be
kind
> > and be total lies.
>
> > But the act of looking, of seeking to bond in that moment, and to
express
> > the human condition is what art is all about.
>
> > So I think Henri Cartier-Bresson was diminishing photography from other
> > portrait art forms. Of course I didn't read the whole quote.
>
> > Adam Bridge
> > Split Second Films
>
>
>