Camera Ads as Art

CGW · May 2, 2012

Nothing like strip-mining the past for present priorities--and profit!

Came across this in Interview a few weeks back. More grist for the "WTF! That's Art?" mill:

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/anne-collier/#_

Have to confess to framing some original ads. Better start grabbing more ahead of the crowd!

cliveh · May 2, 2012

I recall an Audi advertisement comparing their design concept with a Leica IIIg, but can't find it on Google.

CGW · May 2, 2012

cliveh said:
I recall an Audi advertisement comparing their design concept with a Leica IIIg, but can't find it on Google.

For all you bloated plutocrats out there, Leica's got you covered:

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalcame...nd-of-audi-vorsprung-durch-titanium-50000840/

BTW, how'd the V500 shake out, cliveh?

cliveh · May 2, 2012

CGW said:
BTW, how'd the V500 shake out, cliveh?

Still got a few problems. I manage digital technology in some ways, but not really my medium.

semi-ambivalent · May 2, 2012

CGW said:
For all you bloated plutocrats out there, Leica's got you covered:

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalcame...nd-of-audi-vorsprung-durch-titanium-50000840/

BTW, how'd the V500 shake out, cliveh?

Yuppie epiphanies drive the world's economies, eh?

CGW · May 2, 2012

semi-ambivalent said:
Yuppie epiphanies drive the world's economies, eh?

Who here isn't into a bit of camera bling? Admit, though, that's a whole lotta titanium moonshot ape$hit bling.

semi-ambivalent · May 2, 2012

CGW said:
Who here isn't into a bit of camera bling? Admit, though, that's a whole lotta titanium moonshot ape$hit bling.

I've like titanium ever since I saw an entire tank turret blank made of it. But that Leica isn't even pretty, which I consider a bigger betrayal by Leica. I wonder if it too is pre-assembled in Portugal before being "Made in Germany".

CGW · May 2, 2012

semi-ambivalent said:
I've like titanium ever since I saw an entire tank turret blank made of it. But that Leica isn't even pretty, which I consider a bigger betrayal by Leica. I wonder if it too is pre-assembled in Portugal before being "Made in Germany".

It's a butt-ugly little spud, true. Wonder if a "Porsche design" attempt would have been prettier? One-offs like Minolta's Prod 20--sexy according to some--were at least affordable. The Leica is just wretched excess for drug lords and/or Goldman Sachs princes.

vpwphoto · May 2, 2012

It's called appropriation and self promotion... it's how to be successful since 1996.

vpwphoto · May 2, 2012

I always laughed about the Nissan 300z commercial saying "Headlamp as precise as a Hasselblad lens". It's Zeiss dumb arses!

tony lockerbie · May 2, 2012

vpwphoto said:
I always laughed about the Nissan 300z commercial saying "Headlamp as precise as a Hasselblad lens". It's Zeiss dumb arses!

Unless it's an Xpan and then it's a Fujinon, and I bet they are all better than a damned Nissan headlamp...I hope!

ken472 · May 2, 2012

I've been saving old ads especially Nikon ones from old National Geographic for years.

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