What is Panoramic Photography (WAS: Simon: Nazi Colors

["Mitchell P. Warner" <indepth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 05:45:42 -0800
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Subject: Re: Simon:  Nazi Colors
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At 05:45 AM 2/19/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Well, the note does not have anything to do with panoramic photography
>but is truly amazing.  Thanks as well for the great URL to the images.
>

David,  
	First:  You are welcome to the URL. Like Simon I truly enjoy sharing. 	
	
	Second: What is panoramic photography?  
		Is it just images? 
	If so, where, when?  
	On the ground glass? 
	In a viewfinder? 
	On a transparency? 
	On a print? 
	When published in a Magazine or a Web page? 
	Hanging in a gallery?
	A digital file? Does panoramic photography exist when you previsualize an
	image? 
	When you talk about it with other photographers? 
	Does Panoramic Photography exist exclusively as an Historical entity? 
	Or only Modern?  
	Is there panoramic photography when we have to deal with all the technical
		aspects of lens', ratios, films, development...? 
	Or does it only exist when we contemplate the art of it?  
	Perhaps only at the moment of the shutter being released, as every step
before 		and after is some type of manipulation, intended or otherwise. 
	Just one of the above?  
	Or all?   
	Who can Select?
	Who would have the ego to create such a narrow defination?

	Simon Nathan IS  panoramic photography! in every way I can think of.

	Relating to Simon, then and now, and attempting to extract or expand on
any bits of his historical life as a Pan' photographer can only enrich us
all. 

>Best regards,
>W. David Schwaderer
>
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author=Schwaderer%2C%20W.%20David/002-559
6264-0325832
>
>
At Your Service, 
                         Mitch Warner

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