Hi Paul, you've been quite sensitive these days. I was just pointing
out the differences I observed ... I made no judgments. It seems that
your prejudices are coming through loud and clear, though.
PAUL STENQUIST wrote:
> Do I detect an air of pretension wafting through the oft vacuous halls
> of the PDML? A portrait is much more than someone "looking into the
> camera and smiling." A portrait utilizes all the tools at the
> photographers disposal in an attempt to capture the spirit of the
> subject. Some fail. Some succeed. But a good portrait is every bit as
> dynamic as the politically correct, Leica-toter snapshots that you can
> find where those folks tend to congregate. Yes, I'm being harsh, but
> those grainy slice-of-life photos are neither more worthy nor more
> interesting than nature photographs, architectural photographs, or
> portraits. Flowers are beautiful, and when one can capture or enhance
> that beauty -- interpret that beauty -- one creates art. Just ask Monet.
> On a strictly personal level, I find little that interests me in
> photography that attempts to record the real world. (I did quite a bit
> of it. I worked as a magazine photographer for many years.) If I'm going
> to look at world as it really exists, I'd much rather do it in person.
> If I'm going to record the world on film, I'd rather interpret it. Of
> course this is a matter of personal taste. But to assume that one type
> of photography is necessarily more dynamic or more correct than another
> is nothing more than a pretension. A portrait is not just someone
> looking into the camera and smiling. And the PUG is packed with artful photographs.
> Paul Stenquist
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