Comments on: POTY: Leica’s Picture of the Year is by Thomas Hoepker https://www.macfilos.com/2022/10/20/poty-leicas-picture-of-the-year-is-by-thomas-hoepker/ Leica cameras, photography and discussion Sat, 22 Oct 2022 22:34:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: AlistairH https://www.macfilos.com/2022/10/20/poty-leicas-picture-of-the-year-is-by-thomas-hoepker/#comment-56405 Sat, 22 Oct 2022 22:34:51 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=54928#comment-56405 I still don’t get it. The press release is totally tl;dr!

How can a 59-year-old photo be the “Picture of the Year”?

Having said that, I date from 1964, and would not mind being named “photographer of the year”!

]]> By: George Appletree https://www.macfilos.com/2022/10/20/poty-leicas-picture-of-the-year-is-by-thomas-hoepker/#comment-56352 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 08:57:18 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=54928#comment-56352 An interesting article about the phographer
https://www.blind-magazine.com/news/thomas-hoepker-looks-back-at-six-decades-of-photojournalism/
There Leica fans can see a photograph of his very first Leica camera

]]> By: Mike Evans https://www.macfilos.com/2022/10/20/poty-leicas-picture-of-the-year-is-by-thomas-hoepker/#comment-56351 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 06:38:34 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=54928#comment-56351 In reply to Stephen.

The POTY is based on the photographs of the photographers of the Leica Hall of Fame so necessarily all are taken many years ago. For modern photography you need to look at the Leica Oskar Barnack Award which was announced at the same reception yesterday.

After writing this I see you came back with an amended comment.

]]> By: Stephen https://www.macfilos.com/2022/10/20/poty-leicas-picture-of-the-year-is-by-thomas-hoepker/#comment-56349 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:12:05 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=54928#comment-56349 Oops! sincere apologies to Thomas Hoepker for the living photographer remark..that was stupid of me, I rattled that comment off before I realized what I had said. I was intending to say.. a great contemporary image taken recently IN the 2000’s perhaps, that fits the “Picture of the year 2022” title. This is in no way a criticism of the photographer in question or the image chosen which is wonderfully observed and composed. I will now go and hide with my head down for the rest of the day.

]]> By: Stephen https://www.macfilos.com/2022/10/20/poty-leicas-picture-of-the-year-is-by-thomas-hoepker/#comment-56347 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:56:59 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=54928#comment-56347 So let me get this straight… the Leica picture of the year in 2022 was taken in 1963.
Good picture but it begs the question, aren’t there any current pictures in 2022 that are “touching the world”? yes, I do understand the criteria for selection, just wondering if we couldn’t find a great image today by a living photographer. Especially when you consider the number of cameras now and everything that is happening in the world.It got me wondering if modern photographers are anywhere near on the same level as the greats when it comes to composition and capturing the moment.

]]> By: George Appletree https://www.macfilos.com/2022/10/20/poty-leicas-picture-of-the-year-is-by-thomas-hoepker/#comment-56335 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:26:20 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=54928#comment-56335 ]]> In reply to Mike Evans.

It makes moustaches grow😆

]]> By: Mike Evans https://www.macfilos.com/2022/10/20/poty-leicas-picture-of-the-year-is-by-thomas-hoepker/#comment-56333 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:18:41 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=54928#comment-56333 In reply to John Wilson.

Yes, I feel like that often. I have an old packet of Pepto-Bismol in the bathroom cabinet, but I’ve forgotten what it’s for. Must be indigestion.

]]> By: John Wilson https://www.macfilos.com/2022/10/20/poty-leicas-picture-of-the-year-is-by-thomas-hoepker/#comment-56330 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:14:01 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=54928#comment-56330 Sorry guy in the bus in the hat.

]]> By: John Wilson https://www.macfilos.com/2022/10/20/poty-leicas-picture-of-the-year-is-by-thomas-hoepker/#comment-56329 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:11:23 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=54928#comment-56329 I swear the guy in the bus in the bus is the current congressman Jerry Nadler!

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