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I am sure you believe what you say.
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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?
 
Retro-Grouch said:
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?
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Родченко, Александр Михайлович — Википедия

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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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Retro-Grouch said:
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?
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Peace? Hah! Pistols at dawn. LMAO Or a nice cuppa tea.
 
boojum said:
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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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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boojum said:
Miniamata, I remember it well. Mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan. I remember it well. It is not something easily forgotten.
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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.
 
Brambling said:
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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Meryl Streep carried Clint Eastwood in that movie. She is so gifted.

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.
 
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Yes, Casablanca is also a visual pleasure.
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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.
 
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!
 
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"...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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Brambling said:
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!
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Janet Malcolm: Diana and Nikon
Max Kozloff: Photography and Fascination and The Privileged Eye
A. D. Coleman: Light Readings
 
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