The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says “no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras.” They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rollieflex and when you strike someone with one,--- that is take your camera and use it as a weapon, they know they have been hit with something substantial.
- Danny Lyon, from a piece over on American Suburb X
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I dunno, brother. Smacks of elitism, and even worse, bit of tech-fetishism, as if only quality materials deserve the name. As if good photography's never been made with simple, inexpensive cameras.
A camera is anything that can capture light and record the image, yeah? And a cell phone shot, taken well, can be just as devastating as any shot taken with a Rollei or a Mamiya.
Yeah, of course. I just thought it was funny. Personally I'm waiting for the pin-sized camera with full frame sensor and 20mpx with silent shutter that I can hide in a baseball cap or pair of glasses.
right on, man.
Hey, I've been to Masada.
The funny/good thing with photography fame is you can still walk down the street. Ask the average person if they know who Andreas Gursky is...crickets.
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