Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From: "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com> wrote (snip): > Parr is fascinating. I was very very impressed with him in the late > eighties, but he seems to have lost a lot of his edge. "Last Resort" is > pretty good, but "Small World" about global tourism really failed to make > any kind of sustained point, despite the occasional excellent snap. To me he's showing the absurdity of how we can look and act as tourists. He was acussed of ridiculing mankind in his work and he resonded that mankind IS ridiculous. HCB I read actually confronted Parr to tell him how he "was from a completely different planet" than himself. It's a great chapter in the book: 'MAGNUM-Fifty years at the front line of history' by Russell Miller,Grove Press 1997 ,That goes into Parr's membership issue at Magnum, pages 294-298. It's a great book and quite interesting in it's membership dynamics,infighting,competition,"Artist' Vs. 'Journalist', etc... and all the history of it's creation and members lives. ~Andrew - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html