Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Emperor's new clothes...
From: John Brownlow <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 06:35:41 +0000

on 14/2/00 10:45 pm, Nathan Wajsman at wajsman@webshuttle.ch wrote:

> 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.

FWIW I'm a fan of Eggleston's work, which I find quite moving.

- -- 
John Brownlow

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