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Pastimes : Photography, Digital including Point and Shoot -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (67)	7/17/2002 11:17:08 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4530

"Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph." ~Robert Heinecken~

To: E who wrote (67)	7/18/2002 6:49:28 AM
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Great show indeed, and thanks again for pointing it out! I'd also seen most of the images before, many times, but there is nothing like seeing the original prints. Something about that brings one closer to the artist who made them. Their size, tints, contrasts, dynamic range, you name it. Nothing like the original. More importantly, the show made me realize again and much more deeply, how much we're going to lose as a society, now that photographers are switching to digital. In the digital world, once an assignment is over and the choices for publication are made, the memory card is almost always erased and used again. In the olden days, once a negative was in existence, it was rarely discarded. The Clinton scandal, for example, would not have been the same event if the photo of him and Monica embracing didn't exist. But, the photographer thought not much of it at the time of shooting. Only remembered it months later, and had his assistant go through the discarded but filed images to find it. Bingo, history's changed. Also, in the years past, newspapers often donated their old images to libraries. That's come to a screeching halt. I think digital may be ushering in an era of visual memory loss that is unprecedented, and strikes me as monumentally tragic. "All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget." -- John Berger

To: E who wrote (67)	7/19/2002 8:36:06 PM
From: Done, gone.	Respond to of 4530

Anyone see PBS News Hour tonite? Last segment was about an exhibit called "Open City" now in Washington D.C.'s Hirshhorn Museum. If I were there, I wouldn't walk, I'd run to it! hirshhorn.si.edu Nevermind the, shall we say less then informed commentary I heard on PBS, such as something like, "William Klein used a wide angle lens to capture this image..." when in fact to any photographer it is obvious Klein must have used a telephoto for that particular image of four people's faces compressed into an very tight vertical composition. Ah, the craft blabla of non-practitioners. Nothing like it. (g) Having flushed the commentary, my mouth was watering at the sight. What a show that must be! Robert Frank m2.aol.com William Klein masters-of-photography.com Garry Winogrand masters-of-photography.com Lee Friedlander masters-of-photography.com Under one roof. Must be stunning! Originated in Oxford's Photographer's Gallery (the first photo gallery I set foot in, back in '75) so it may continue traveling. Hope it makes its way near me!