Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:33:42 -0600 From: Anders Nygren <txmanyg@txm.ericsson.se> Subject: Re: [Leica] Eggleston cameras > Previous [Hasselbla] prize-winners have been: (Up to 1995) > [all wonderful photographers] > And some of You will be shocked to hear that the 1999 > Hasselblad Award went > to ........ > ...... Cindy Sherman. Aaaauuggggggghhhhhhh! > The short intro on the Hasselblad Center web pages > describes her as "Cindy Sherman's work is central to > our understanding of Western visual culture during > the eighties and nineties. Say *what*? > One of the first (and the few) of the post-modernists > to site politics and gender issues at the center of > her work, [...] *Guffaw*. She impressed the "political" downtown NYC gallery crowd whith a series of "social critiques" about as deep as an avrage ad in _Elle_. Like, wow, she dressed up as Barbie on Drugs and cross processed her film. Oh, man, I'm Drivin' the Porcelain Bus! Alexey Merz