How do you spell "bullshit" in French?

[pdeeh]

Kittens sit high on the moral index, but homeless people with puppies are the best evidence of the moral character of the photographer. A homeless person with a lurcher pup on piece of string in a shopping precinct playing a tin whistle while a well dressed lady ignores them shows,
correct use of contrast
sharpness in lines per millimetre
separation between subject and background
the ability to photograph on brief
a social conscience

Absolute moral good requires vignetting, the use of sepia and a watermark across the middle to identify the photographer. None of which an abstract Autochrome delivers on, proving it to be a work of moral degeneracy, or worse, lacking corner to corner sharpness.

hmm this is interesting.

I have just returned from the Don McCullin retrospective at Hauser & Wirth, and while he seems to have quite a lot of pictures of poor brown people being unhappy - which presumably is on all fours with your "homeless person with a dog on a bit of string" criterion -- I have to report that his shadow detail leaves a great deal to be desired indeed!

(I left a note in the visitors' book to the effect that he could join APUG and get some advice on how to properly test and expose film)

 

[DREW WILEY]

Le Cordon Beull

 

[blockend]

hmm this is interesting.

I have just returned from the Don McCullin retrospective at Hauser & Wirth, and while he seems to have quite a lot of pictures of poor brown people being unhappy - which presumably is on all fours with your "homeless person with a dog on a bit of string" criterion -- I have to report that his shadow detail leaves a great deal to be desired indeed!

(I left a note in the visitors' book to the effect that he could join APUG and get some advice on how to properly test and expose film)

As a rule, images printed by famous photographers aren't very good. There are exceptions, but I recall a Cartier-Bresson retrospective at the Photographers Gallery, and HCB's own darkroom prints were workmanlike to a utilitarian degree. You may well still be able to purchase photographs by the Farms Security Administration greats like Walker Evans, from the US Govt at very reasonable prices, but they'll show little of the magic. They're from an interneg I would imagine.

This is why printers like Magnum's Pablio Inirio are so highly prized. Of course there's no reason why a great photographer should be a great printer, they're different skills. I mean, could you be @rsed with this?: http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/photog...agnum-and-the-dying-art-of-darkroom-printing/