It could also be said that your reply carries "an air of
pretension" as well. People like what they like.
Len
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> PAUL STENQUIST
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> 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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