If photography was music

[rkm]

Long time musician here, and novice photographer. I can't help notice how many parallels there are between music making and photography.

For instance:

- Street Is the Jazz of photography: It happens in the moment, interprets a complex set of circumstances, can be ugly/beautiful... It is what it is. Shadows and highlights are equally important. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts. Jazz is existence music. Street is existence photography.

- A Leica M3 is like a Fender Telecaster: Deceptively low on features, but surprisingly versatile. The emphasis is on what the hands of the artist can do with it. Also, they don't make them like they used to.

With broad brush strokes, and tongue firmly in cheek if you wish, add your own observations...

 

[Roger Hicks]

8x10 inch: kettle drum. Hard to ignore!

Minox: Piccolo. Just looks like one.

M9: Second-generation Moog.

Leica S: Grand piano.

Nudes: chamber music?

Olympus (until recently): fiddle.

Cheers,

R.

 

[flip]

Hexar AF - air guitar

 

[daveleo]

My current photographic style is . . . elevator music

My stylistic ambition is . . . . . Jazz

 

[sreed2006]

So which camera is the cannon from the 1812 Overture?

The one-time-use cameras are like penny flutes.

 

[Roger Hicks]

So which camera is the cannon from the 1812 Overture?

The one-time-use cameras are like penny flutes.

12x15 inch Gandolfi Universal.

Frances suggests that a Nikon SP is like Mozart: covered in twiddly bits.

Cheers,

R.

 

[sanmich]

HCB would be Bach at the cello
Elliott Erwitt, Eric Satie
I would be a 6 years old on his third lesson of violin.

 

[mbisc]

Merge the two -- listen to Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite while looking at (or taking) images of the Grand Canyon 😀

 

[charjohncarter]

If you saw my cameras, you'd say Blues.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band:

"Can blue men sing the whites...?"

Chers,

R.

 

[grapejohnson]

I wonder who Dorothea Lange and Weegee would be musically

 

[grapejohnson]

rangefinders remind me more of telecasters than strats

 

[pakeha]

FSU must be anti establishment,anti cliche,anti status quo punk then...cool

 

[charjohncarter]

rangefinders remind me more of telecasters than strats

IIIf reminds me of a Telecaster. Les Paul=M-3, M-9=synthesizer.

 

[grapejohnson]

IIIf reminds me of a Telecaster. Les Paul=M-3, M-9=synthesizer.

The M9 would be a DX7. Absolutely.

 

[lynnb]

So which camera is the cannon from the 1812 Overture?

My vote would be the polaroid 20x24

 

[lynnb]

Mustn't forget to mention Steiglitz's 1923 series of cloud studies he called "Equivalents". An example from this series is "Clouds, Music No. 1, Lake George", part of a series of ten cloud photographs that he directly identified as visual music. (Source: "A History of Photography from 1839 to the Present, The George Eastman House Collection", pp. 483-485, Taschen).

 

[grapejohnson]

man, what would be the glorious 9th? the hubble?

 

[f6andBthere]

I can't think of a Nikon F without thinking about Duran Duran's 'Girls On Film.'

 

[rkm]

I can't think of a Nikon F without thinking about Duran Duran's 'Girls On Film.'

I can't think of Girls on Film without thinking about the accompanying video clip.

I remember playing a bar gig when it came up on the venues TVs. I lost my way in the song :S