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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 'art' photography
From: Ken Iisaka <kiisaka@pacbell.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:17:55 -0800

>. i don't think it is fair to imply that artists like ralph
> gibson, michael kenna, and nabuyoshi araki are essentially misguided
or
> 'inaccessible' simply because their work does not follow the
documentary
> tradition or seek to draw our collective attention to human suffering.

Nabuyoshi Araki... there's another name I absolutely despise.

He is merely a fashionable pornographer.  Build a portfolio of nude 14
year olds, and call it art.