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I am not doing my "Buddhism sucks" rant again, if you missed the fine rant back when you can dig into the album and look for it

it is funny though how the school of thought firmly based on "life sucks, let's stay away from this pesky life"" concept manages to put so much effort and with such spectacular results into things that celebrate life and make life so very pleasant

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watching a compilation of photographs by Rene Burri on youtube, never heard the name before or maybe heard but immediately forgot, I am not good with names, but a stunning collection of photos, all that I love about photography, just a pure joy to see ...
and what I think is this - if almost any of RB's photos, as almost any of the photos of his other Magnum mates, were taken with a modern oh-so-sharp-with-eye-tracking-focus camera with painfully crisp focus and painfully high resolution they would not work . They would not be the great photos they are. They would seize to be unique object the are. They would become pedestrian flat but oh so very sharp snaps.
Somehow I feel lack of "quality" is required for a photo to breathe. "Quality" as it is understood these days of course, i.e. somehow a photographic imprint these days needs not only to copy life 100% but exceed life itself in sharpness, crispiness, everythingelseness. Life is no longer sharp enough for a consumer. We need to digitally enhance poor ol' life so it looks its artificial best. "Lack of quality" (in a vulgar modern sense) doesn't make a bad photo any better of course but it sure as heck makes a good photo come alive.

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