Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Lenswork Magazine
From: John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca>
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 07:00:44 -0700

I had been buying Lenswork for several years until I stopped last year. 
While the magazine goes to great lengths to complain about the awful 
state of the art world, it presented the same old style of 
pseudo-spiritualistic photography over and over again. Brooks is always 
asking the same "are we not all so deeply internally driven and 
therefore special" questions which most of the interviewees play along 
with. Occasionally there is a portfolio that is refreshingly different 
but it was getting to be too occasionally. And also occasionally the 
photographer thinks and says plainly that they feel Brooks is talking 
utter nonsense. I am impressed that Brooks runs those interviews.

So I usually check it out and do not buy it if it is another issue of 
the same old same old. The Feb-March issue was a great one but I have 
not bought another since. I will be at the newsstand today and will 
check out the Gibson issue. That sounds interesting.

John Collier

Do not even mention Bill Jay's end notes.

On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 09:00 PM, Paul T. Winkfield wrote:

> Lenswork as a magazine is the greatest, I'm amazed it
> haven't been spoken of more in this group.  If you buy latest copy, 
> #43,
> Ralph Gibson is interviewed, very funny!
> He should do Conan's show, and there's a picture story on the la 
> charreada -
> the Mexican rodeo by David Shaw what's so interesting? he has pics of 
> the
> lady riders, to this day they ride side-saddle!

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