RE: [Leica] Eggleston cameras

[Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>]

Paul,
While I don't disagree with the tone of your remarks about the 'art speak'
surrounding the guy.
He was certainly the first serious photographer to work, and be exhibited,
wholly in colour (he'd taken b/w pix before of course) at a time when b/w
was the only medium for serious photographers.
His innaugral exhibition, collated by John Szarkowski, was widely shunned
and criticised at the time for being in colour. In 1976 the perception of
the Art Establishment was clearly what you are (sarcastically) so suprised
about.

regards,
Jem
> ----------
> From: 	Paul Chefurka[SMTP:Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com]
> 
> Looks like a Leica to me too.  But what really caught my eye on that page
> was the following line from the introduction:
> "He has also come to utilize the potential of color to the full, seeing it
> as a fundamental feature of perception."
> Now imagine that - color is a fundamental feature of perception!  Gee, I
> never ever realized that.  I wonder if he was the first person in the
> history of perception to have this breathtaking insight.  No shit,
> Sherlock!
> Is it any wonder that people get all squinty-eyed when "artists" or their
> representatives start talking about art?
> 
> Paul Chefurka
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Brownlow [mailto:deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 5:32 PM
> To: LUG
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Eggleston cameras
> 
> 
> on 16/2/00 10:14 pm, Mark Rabiner at mrabiner@concentric.net wrote:
> 
> > I can't find a shot of him on the Hasselblad site with I Leica. The have
> a
> > huge
> > download picture of "Eggleston and Bengtsson" looking though a bunch of
> Blad
> > gear but no small cameras in site!!??
> > Mark Rabiner
> 
> Mark --
> 
> http://www2.hasselbladfoundation.o.se/hbf/egglestone.html
> 
> I *think* it's a leica. Sure looks like one.
> 
> -- 
> John Brownlow
> 
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