From: Kris Erickson (kerickso@ryerson.ca)
Date: 08/20/02-12:17:22 PM Z
Not sure if I posted this to the list already, but it sounds like it may be
applicable to the discussion at hand:
http://www.photographerinterviews.com/2001/heath/
Dave Heath interviewed by Chris Buck, who's website is at:
http://www.chrisbuck.com/
cheers,
k
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Fulton [mailto:jfulton@itsa.ucsf.edu]
Sent: August 20, 2002 7:44 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: photographer in training, please reduce BS ahead.
Excerpting Shannon's comments below . . our 3 yr old niece told me over the
phone yesterday that she didn't need diapers anymore. This was a profound
experience in her yet young life experience. All of us go through such
events and mark them off w/celebration: tick, tick, the pencil mark on the
wall as one grows up. One of photography's unique aspects is the reality
quotient and that's often applied to the familiar.
I mean, in Mexico's jungles the other day, in this nice restaurant, a table
of folks broke into Happy Birthday To You in Spanish.
The term cliche comes from printmaking. It represents the first pull from a
plate so one can see how the 'real' thing looks. It is
as-close-to-the-original as one can get. It is a positive term.
Teachers who tell one to NOT photograph a rock band or a rock or flowers do
not understand the learning process and wish to bypass experience which
teaches in order to create dogma.
Just watch for quality. It is consistent aspect of creating quality of
product that is important. The vision changes as we mature. Judy may not
enjoy the spread nudes of Ed but they foresaw what goes on today many
decades ago. I may not enjoy a single rock ban photo but that person who is
recording it at the moment is having one great period in their life. Since
I'm a grumpy guy too, I hope they rock star photographer will change their
visual diapers.
> I say we forget the word "cliche" and
> never use it again.
> Again, that was the other thing that was so demoralizing to students at my
> school. Once I heard a teacher tell a student to never photograph a rock
> band! Another teacher told people that flowers and children were strictly
> off limits!
>
> --shannon
>
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