[LargeFormat] Re: Admiration

[Eve Girard]

"Likewise in my large format work I refuse to use animal skulls, clocks,
silver balls or old railway engine shops in New Mexico. I subscribe to VIEW
CAMERA and I reckon the world has enough of these images."

ohmygawd, I think I have a new hero . . .
Eve
----- Original Message -----
From: "rstein" <rstein@bigpond.net.au>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:47 AM
Subject: [LargeFormat] Re: Admiration


> Dear Brock,
>
>      You put forward and interesing thought in your last cameraderie
> posting. The business of doing one's own thing in spite of the opinion of
> others.
>
>      I find that I agree with this to some extent but find myself wavering
> on all sort of occasions. I hold sacred the right of the customer to get
the
> picture that they want  - provided that they know what they want and can
> articulate it. I draw the line at pornography - and I use my own
definition
> of that - or copying someone else's images to avoid paying them the
> appropriate fees - but pretty much anything else is fair consideration. If
> there is no preference stated, I take it as an opportunity to express some
> of my own vision.
>
>     This is not to say that I accept all artistic direction. I make it
plain
> to my brides that I don't take tilted pictures with dark sepia brides in
one
> corner and dead fish in the other. If they want that sort of wedding they
> must apply to one of the new graduates from the technical school. God
knows
> there are enough of them and their final exam work has a lot of sepia and
a
> lot of fish.
>
>     Likewise in my large format work I refuse to use animal skulls,
clocks,
> silver balls or old railway engine shops in New Mexico. I subscribe to
VIEW
> CAMERA and I reckon the world has enough of these images. Ahem. Of course
it
> is different with Clive's work.....
>
>     Do I scorn the admiration of others? Not a bit. I love it. I just
don't
> let it or the disapproval the same people evince when they turn the page
of
> the album reward me or punish me. I retain the right to do that.
>
>      Uncle Dick
>
>      PS: Mind - I can be bribed.
>
>
>
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