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Re:I Built the Largest Natural Light Wet Plate Studio in the... by platz on Friday January 19, 2018 @09:47AM (#16186535)
And yet there won't quite ever be a Beatles or an Elvis again, will there?

It can be very hard to beat the zietgiest of an age at their own game. There is something special in that, which we try to measure up to, but still can't quite reproduce exactly even with better technology.

Will there ever be a eugene atget or a walker Evans or a Dorothea Lange that beat them at their own game?

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Re:I Built the Largest Natural Light Wet Plate Studio in the... by igouy on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:08PM (#16188328)
Until you provide some criteria that would allow us to evaluate "beat them at their own game" for a particular body of photographs …

Eugene Atget or Walker Evans or Dorothea Lange were doing their thing in their now -- so beating them at their own game would be doing your thing in your now.

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Re:I Built the Largest Natural Light Wet Plate Studio in the... by platz on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:08PM (#16188806)
great, we're all in agreement.
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