I realise that no one cares
but I have just finished my 600 page history of photography textbook, and I wanted a bit more fanfare than I got by closing the book and dropping it loudly on the floor.



As you were.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 18:07, 8 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Dooooo dooooo dooo doo do do do
Sadly, that was my best effort at typing a trumpet fanfare. Use your imagination eh?

Well done you. Was it not exactly the most exciting read this century then?

*waves flags*
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 28 Aug 2008, 18:13, Reply)

Did you read it all
or just look at the pictures?
( le brian, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 18:15, Reply)

I see your photography book
and raise you this...

www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Control-Engineering-Ken-Dutton/dp/0201175452/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219943892&sr=8-2
(scentless_apprentice takes two bottles into the shower!, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 18:18, Reply)

Or indeed
were there actually pictures to illustrate the text?

It would have been rather dull otherwise, I'd guess.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 18:21, Reply)

I READ ALL OF IT!
Sample quote:
Through blur, which indicates an eye dimmed with tears and a mind clouded with opinions, he transformed simple archival photographs into symbols for the tangled issues of German historical memory in and out of the twentieth century. The smudged surfaces of the canvases erased the sharpness of their newspaper sources, imitating not only hazy recall, but also the sense of lost idealism, felt especially by Germans who lived through the tensions and moral compromises of the cold war.

Six. Hundred. Pages. Of. That.

EDIT: Yes, there were also pictures. But it's still taken me about a week.
EDIT 2: Piss off scentless. Leave me with my glory.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 18:21, Reply)

I think I mentioned it in a QOTW once but...
A friend of mine claimed his dad taught partially-sighted people photography.

Surely the appreciation factor is somewhat lacking?

Edit: Books with big words - scary. Don't ever read Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus. I nearly cried with relief at the end.

Second Edit: Sorry MM - I was more intending to share your pain/relief/whatever.
(scentless_apprentice takes two bottles into the shower!, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 18:23, Reply)

SA
Surely they just appreciate it from a very close distance?

EDIT: I know. I'm just very proud of myself right now : D
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 18:24, Reply)

I think it's a result to be heralded
as I only did that for one year of college and then decided I was smart enough to not do it anymore.


( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 21:52, Reply)