Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/13

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: sherman
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:11:53 -0500

Thanks....Maybe I can spend a day with Cindy..;-)


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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of David
Kieltyka
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:57 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: sherman


B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Sherman's work is, to me, far too self-indulgent and gimmicky
> to be worth much notice. As I said before, only half-joking,
> it is the successful commercial version of the self-indulgent
> "look at me" shlock most art students turn out at some point
> and, thankfully, usually outgrow.

Hmmm, I've always seen Sherman's stuff as in part a knowing send-up of the
very self-indulgence you refer to. Her pictures mostly make me chuckle,
though some of the grotesques are genuinely disturbing.

> But to each his or her own...

Yes indeed. Your Day In Our Life series is outstanding IMO. :-)

- -Dave-