[rollei_list] Re: Oddball Musings from This Mutabile Soul
- From: Mark Kronquist <mak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:30:08 -0700
Hmmm on he considerably younger side I had not thought of this nor have I
observed it. True, my father ditched his RB kit for Nikon DLSRs is his 70's
but he (and my mother) both shoot thousands of images each year. My grandmother
died at her Mac in Taiwan with her Rollei T in her bag and a dozen rolls he had
not gotten processed yet and my Great Grandfather shot with his 5 x 7 Premo
View until his death at 98...
On Mar 29, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Kirk Thompson wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:40:07 -0400
> > To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > From: marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [rollei_list] Oddball Musings from This Mutabile Soul
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> > Carlos still fights the Good Fight with film. I shoot about three
> > shots a year now, and all are digital and generally get deleted. The
> > joy is gone from photography. But, then, I'm an Old Guy and my joys
> > are in listening to Big Band and Swing music and in rereading books I
> > first read forty years back.
> > Marc
>
> I can't help responding re: the joys of photography dimming with age.
> Feeling that photography – either gelatin-silver or digital – is over and
> it's time for golden oldies, cigar smoke, and musing after 60 is a personal
> viewpoint that others might not regard with empathy. OK for you, not for me!
>
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> I can understand if/when disability makes photography difficult or
> impossible. I mentioned once before that Lee Friedlander had such a crisis
> when his knees gave out in his mid-70s, but knee replacements put him back
> behind his camera.
>
> My experience is the other way around. I retired without thoughts of
> returning to photography, intending it to be a time for scholarship. The
> gift of a little digital camera (an amazing 3 MP) got me started again, and
> I've since been equally happy with film and digital. I belong to an active
> photo group that holds monthly critiques, and I find that the younger people,
> while they regard their oldest member as a rather an old-fashioned
> 'formalist,' treat me and my work with the same respect that they show one
> another. We're quite a mix of ages and backgrounds: we're pleased to have,
> besides aspiring young artists, a couple of retired commercial photographers
> who've turned to personal art-work, and a retired university-level
> photography teacher. A number of members are film photographers (with a
> preference for Holgas!). We've grown way past film-digital hostility and
> have put on respectable group shows.
>
> This is hardly a diminution of the joys of photography, and I know other
> enthusiastic seniors. Flickr even has sites where the elderly share their
> work.
>
> Just my 2 cents, coming from the opposite direction – and hoping I have
> company, especially among users of those old vintage cameras with two eyes.
>
> Kirk
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