Retro-Grouch
Veteran
Thank you for acknowledging my sincerity. I understand that you are equally sincere; I would prefer to discuss our disagreement, but, that not being possible, I can certainly "agree to disagree". I apologize for my tone; in retrospect, it seems sarcastic and hostile, and that's not the type of person I want to be, on RFF or anywhere else.
I value the wit, intelligence, and knowledge you bring to the forum, and don't wish there to be any ill will between us. I do hope we can proceed without any. Peace?
Ororaro
Well-known
Showing off your LEGENDARY
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
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I hope you will find a way to translate
Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhaylovich
Fortunately talent knows no borders. Some of the early Soviet cinema is still arresting, Man with a Camera and Potemkin spring to mind, of course. This talent was not confined to cinema and thanks for introducing it to us. One of this board's strengths is the broad membership, united over the pursuit of a good image. The elusive will-o-the-wisp thing.
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boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
Peace? Hah! Pistols at dawn. LMAO Or a nice cuppa tea.
Retro-Grouch
Veteran
Jello wrestling is more my style. Thank you for your understanding!
Ororaro
Well-known
Soul Lighter,
Ororaro
Well-known
Always so soothing
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
We are all in this together.
AlwaysOnAuto
Well-known
I've always considered this to be one of my better efforts of being there and able to get the shot.
Brambling
Well-known
Oh, yes!
You've noticed correctly - you can't separate legendary photographs from legendary films and paintings, and even music and writers matter!
And it's impossible to separate the whole culture by borders, I think.
Now I've come up with "The Bridges of Madison County" - stop watching it in translation (5 times
), now I can learn English from it!)
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Uncle Fester
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I worked at San Francisco International Airport for 37 years. In the late 80s and early 90s, we had many tour groups from Japan pass through the airport. Among these groups of Japanese tourists, there were even a few groups of people that were obvious victims of the mercury poisoning passing through. It was heartbreaking to see so many of them.
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
Meryl Streep carried Clint Eastwood in that movie. She is so gifted.Oh, yes!
You've noticed correctly - you can't separate legendary photographs from legendary films and paintings, and even music and writers matter!
And it's impossible to separate the whole culture by borders, I think.
Now I've come up with "The Bridges of Madison County" - stop watching it in translation (5 times
I have had a running disagreement with a Russian over three Russian or Russian collaborated films: Russian Ark, Ocie Ciornie and Window to Paris. A nation with Baba Yaga is more able to entertain flights of fancy. Window to Paris has a line where Donetsov says someone is looking out a window at 3:30 in the morning. In the West no one looks out a window at 3:30 in the morning. In Russia, yes. I like all three films very much.
Learn English from Casablanca. It may be our best film. As for Russian music, the Russian Romantic Period of music was wonderful. There is so much said in different languages.
Brambling
Well-known
Yes, Casablanca is also a visual pleasure.
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
I watch it now and again. It is just a great film. You can follow the back story to it on YT videos. It is a marvel it was ever made but here it is, 80 years later and it still plays well. But so does The Cherry Orchard. There is so much in life to experience. The camera helps us to see.
Brambling
Well-known
Henry Peach Robinson 1858
А.О. Карелин 1869
Brambling
Well-known
I apologize for going off topic, but please tell me English-language classical (before 1990) authors on the philosophy of photography, composition and styles of photography, I mean books, textbooks.
I own translated books by D.Kilpatrick, Earl N. Mitchell, Jorge Lewinsky, but there must be more!
I own translated books by D.Kilpatrick, Earl N. Mitchell, Jorge Lewinsky, but there must be more!
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Out to Lunch
Ventor
Not my cup of tea but here's a start:
Photography Theory by James Elkins (Editor)
What Photography Is by James Elkins
Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Susan Sontag - On Photography
Photography Theory by James Elkins (Editor)
What Photography Is by James Elkins
Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Susan Sontag - On Photography
cboy
Well-known
Jr Tolkien -
'human stories is practically always about one thing -death; the inevitably of death '
Dogman
Veteran
"...Please tell me English-language classical (before 1990) authors on the philosophy of photography, composition and styles of photography, I mean books, textbooks."
Some of my favorites:
"Looking at Photographs" and "The Photographer's Eye" by John Szarkowski
"The New Topographics" by William Jenkins
"The History of Photography" Beaumont Newhall
About a gazillion others I cannot remember off hand. These four are good starting points for the "documentary style" of photography.
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Some of my favorites:
"Looking at Photographs" and "The Photographer's Eye" by John Szarkowski
"The New Topographics" by William Jenkins
"The History of Photography" Beaumont Newhall
About a gazillion others I cannot remember off hand. These four are good starting points for the "documentary style" of photography.
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Retro-Grouch
Veteran
Janet Malcolm: Diana and Nikon
Max Kozloff: Photography and Fascination and The Privileged Eye
A. D. Coleman: Light Readings