[Leica] Anne Leibovitz

[billcpearce at cox.net (Bill Pearce)]

So she is doing what painters have been doing for hundreds of years, and 
that's bad? Since when did photography have to be realistic? I thought we 
had shed those shackles years ago.

I think she has taken many great photographs, and has slid into a morass as 
she approaches the time when she will no longer be able to ply her trade, 
but I salute her for getting out of the financial problems she faced. I hope 
in the future she trusts more trustworthy financial advisors.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Lew Schwartz
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 8:00 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Anne Leibovitz

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:

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> http://www.fastcocreate.com/1683295/annie-leibovitz-on-getting-the-shot-and-the-future-of-photography#1
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> Cheers
> Jayanand
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