Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I spent the weekend in Denmark, and visited the Museum of Photography in Odense Sunday afternoon. In addition to their excellent permanent collection they had an exhibit by a photographer named Eggleton (I think). He is supposed to be one of the greats. His CV listed a long string of exhibitions and prizes (and incidentally, his first Leica purchase in 1958), most recently the 1998 Hasselblad Prize. Seldom have I been so disappointed by a photography exhibit. I did not see a single picture that I would even bother printing. Most of the pictures were of non-descript scenes, mostly from the Southern U.S. and mostly devoid of people. The exhibit was accompanied by some learned writeups explaining how the topics were trivial but the photographs very deep, but I guess I am just to plain and uneducated to "get it". I do appreciate photographic craft even when the subject matter is not my cup of tea (as in Mapplethorpe's homoerotic images), but here even this aspect was missing, with many shaken pictures, crooked horizons, botched compositions etc. Not looking for any responses per se, just had to vent... Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium and Zurich, Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator Belgium photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman