Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lew, Money buys media all over the world, so what is new? Isn't making tons and tons of money the foundation stone of the American Dream? Why blame someone for doing that? Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote: > I don't deny it at all. I am somewhat miffed that here in the US > money+popularity = authority. > > -Lew Schwartz > > > On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com > >wrote: > > > I am with you, I don't much like her current brand of photography. Seems > > like a soft core Rankin (a photographer whose works I detest), but you > > cannot deny her pop star status amongst current working photographers. My > > guess is she is doing all this purely for the money, I remember reading > > that she got bankrupted by a structured financial deal gone wrong > > (surprise, surprise), if that is so, one can hardly blame her. I thought > > the article was interesting enough though. > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >