Re: Shoot-In: And you thought it was about the equipment... I haven't participated since very early on... But, I going to try to
find the energy (hard) and time (harder) for this one - we shall see..
BTW, the shots by Cindy Sherman are a hoot... You have to know the
original shot/person to appreciate her humor... There are two shots I
can't recognize or put in context, but the rest brought a chuckle of
recognition... She is an original thinker... And her knowledge of
photo images from Life, Look, People, etc. is apparently voluminous...
Interestingly, I managed to impress a small group of the MTV generation
recently... There was a program on that showed some of the iconic photo
images (pre digital photography)... A couple of the teenagers there
turned to me and challenged me with, "Hey, Doc O, you know
everything... Who took this picture?"
Well it was Ernie Hass' iconic cross image of underwear in mud, so I
told them... The next one was Robert Capa's seminal shot of the
Spanish soldier shot in the head and twirling to the ground... Then
the depression mother shot by Dorthea Lange, and W. Eugene Smith's
heart rending mercury poisoning victim, and a classic Irving Penn
fashion shop of the late 1950's... This went on for several minutes,
there were some photos I didn't recognize and I said so each time...
At the end one of them said, "How did you learn so much?"... I thought
for a second and told them, "Because we didn't have television to eat
up our time and energy."
A t that point I totally lost them...
No television?
Not possible!
And they tuned me out and went back to mindless jungle rhythms with
writhing, flashing 3 per second images modifying their plastic brain
tissue into jello and erasing their attention span..
denny
Denny
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