Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]She may have been a great photographer years ago, but I find her ideas now to be disturbing. She uses the camera to create images of pure fantasy and totally discounts the use of photography to connect to and document reality. When JM Cameron used her friends to give form to powerful religious and literary ideas (a practice she abandoned) she aimed didactically at important social and spiritual issues. Leibovitz' ability to turn any of us into a Disney character is just frightening and pretentious: "Those of us who are photographers, the difference between us and everyone else is that we take what we do very seriously." Ugh! OTOH, she cites (and misunderstands) a nice New Republic piece by Jed Perl. He makes a few really intelligent digs at the newly reconfigured Aperture: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112390/aperture-magazine-relaunched-art-photography-digital-age# -Lew Schwartz On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: > > http://www.fastcocreate.com/1683295/annie-leibovitz-on-getting-the-shot-and-the-future-of-photography#1 > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >