[Leica] Re: Yesterday's walk home

[saganicc at MSKCC.ORG (Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics)]

GB,

In the urban centers, in my experience, graffiti is both an art, and an 
outlet for the voices never heard above the cacophony of advertisements 
littering the place.  I'd rather have billboards of graffiti, then 
cigarettes, alcohol, automobiles, and fast food any day.  As a kid, there 
was nothing more real then watching a brightly graphitized subway car moving 
through the burnt out Bronx wasteland on a dim fall day.  Only the most 
gifted poet could hope to elucidate the significance of the very existence 
of such a sight.

Chris Saganich

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Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 6:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Yesterday's walk home

From: "JCB" <jcb@visualimpressions.com>

Subject: [Leica] Re: Yesterday's walk home


> At 01:56 AM 9/30/2004, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>
> http://folk.uio.no/danielr/images/040929

> >The walk takes me along the stream that runs through Oslo. It's
> >fascinating to have such a beautiful environment on my walk home through
> >the center of one of the worlds major cities.
> >
> >The last few images are from my own neighborhood.
>
>
> A very beautiful city indeed... if you like graffiti. Your pictures are
> nice (composition & exposure), but the subject isn't. Sorry, I'm not a fan
> of graffiti regardless of how it is juxtapositioned.
>
> JB
>
> _______________________________________________

Hi Daniel,

I found it interesting to view your journey to work and thought the overall
impression was a pleasant journey without being swamped by graffiti. The
richness of the colour 'glamourised' it on occasion. Most evident in this
shot which I found very easy on the eye :

http://folk.uio.no/danielr/images/040929/pages/IMG_1135.html


Graffiti is a big problem in the UK, so much so that the politicians saw
votes in a campaign to clamp down on it and a few fine speeches were made on
how they were going to clean up our environment. I share JBs' dislike of
graffiti. I most definitely did not want to smile at this response on a bus
shelter that appeared a couple of days after our Tony lent his weight to the
campaign but I couldn't help myself:

http://www.geebeephoto.com/Leica_PAW_2002/pages/Week%2049.html


--gb



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