Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search](well, not really but ...) This showed up on the nikon list a couple of days ago (I only monitor that list so I can bash the users for not buying Leicas). Interesting, or synchonicitious, how the earth turns in little circles all next to one another. Also interesting, to me anyway, is how the photography world and the art-photography world don't really seem to coincide much though the photography world seems to think they do, or will, or should. Also interesting is that the nikon list's reaction to this "art" was almost exactly the same as that of the lug: >From: "Phil M" <kamwm@netcomuk.co.uk> >To: "Nikon Group" <nikon@photo.cis.to> >Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:59:30 -0000 >Subject: [Nikon] OT: Is Art Going to the Toilet? > A friend of mine is an extremely good photographer: he has often won > prizes at the local camera club despite strong competition from pros, > ex-pros and members who have won major competitions in national > photographic magazines. > He recently took some of his pictures to London for hopeful inclusion > at an exhibition. However, the two female 'judges' summarily dismissed > his pictures but gave much credit to a series of photos of women urinating. > >Phil - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html