Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Her work is very strong and elicits strong reactions. It is not the shock and strangeness of her and her friend's lifestyle that makes the work; but it is the universal intimacy without artifice that I find compelling and, in many instances, very moving. It is a difficult thing to do. I can take intimate pictures of me and my family but not often ones that communicate it so effectively to others. John Collier On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 08:05 AM, Johnny Deadman wrote: > Funny, isn't it? I've always disliked her work intensely. Ever since > the Ballad of SD. I don't know why really. I just never found the > photographs of her friends and their dramas that moving I guess. Many > of them remind of parties that I went to and left early, or didn't, > and regretted not having done so. > > On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote: > >> thanks for pointing out the nan golden interview: >> >> http://fototapeta.art.pl/2003/ngie.php >> >> makes me want to drag my leica out of the closet.... nan golden's >> always >> been what photography's about for me -- she's not really a >> photographer, or >> at least, she's not a technical virtuoso, she's someone with a story >> to tell >> for whom photography has become a vehicle. i don't always like her >> pictures >> and and am occasionally repulsed by her subjects but i applaud her >> storytelling. >> >> she's always been a great leica ad for me too. >> >> now where is that m6 of mine? > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html