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Sloooooooow-------------------photography
Erik Markov, Photographer
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anywhere | IN | | Posted: 8:19 PM on 01.18.11 |
->> Slow photography, slow food; what's next slow reading? Encourage people to unconnect from the Kindle and pick up paper? Maybe slow breathing?
http://www.slate.com/id/2279659/?from=rss
Slate's pretentiousness dial must go to 11. Slate columnist picks up on something that Bresson and Erwitt encouraged and thinks he's a genius. |
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Jim Comeau, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 1:03 AM on 01.19.11 |
->> "The slow-photography purist uses a large-format camera, the kind that Ansel Adams once employed. These are cameras that weigh a ton and take a long time to set up."
Really? My Linhof monorail weighs something like 10 pounds and it takes virtually the same amount of time it does to set up any other camera.
Making sure my ISO, color balance, motor drive, Raw or JPG, etc are "zeroed out" takes the same amount of time to zero out a view camera.
This article is bunk. |
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David A. Cantor, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Toledo | OH | USA | Posted: 1:33 AM on 01.19.11 |
->> " I am not a professional photographer, nor even a particularly talented amateur. "
I'm left to wonder then, why do you think you are qualified to write about photography and present a slide show of images that are mediocre at best"
I think if this "writer" had a clue he would have cited Vivian Maier as a cornerstone to his bolster his point:
http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/
(big hat tip John Maloof)
A true slow photographer. |
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Sean Burges, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Canberra | ACT | Australia | Posted: 1:45 AM on 01.19.11 |
| ->> While he starts off with a good idea, he does rather miss the point. I think it was Ruskin who wrote some time in the 19th Century (could be wrong on the dates) that everybody should sketch when on vacation because it forces them to slow down and actually look at the things in front of them. I'm not sure that people looking at their vacation stops through the screen on their camera are actually seeing anything. In a sense that's the difference between the pro and the amateur... the speed at which you 'see' and then capture something. |
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Ric Tapia, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 2:30 AM on 01.19.11 |
| ->> A waste of time... |
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Chris Wilson, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Bowling Green | Ky. | US | Posted: 4:46 PM on 01.20.11 |
->> "Thinking dog or tree can blind you to what you are really seeing — which is, in the end, a series of photons arranged in a way that for convenience you call dog."
Haha, funny. |
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