Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Or, as Tevye says in "Fiddler on the Roof", "When you're rich they think you really know." J -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Lew Schwartz Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2013 11:54 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Anne Leibovitz 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-sho > t-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