Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote: >Yea, Sam Abel!! I totally agree, especially the part about the "art >world" not accepting editorial photography as being worthy of being >considered "art" but a copy is art. I also like his comment that >Prince's work is obviously plagiarism and that the copy is breaking >the Golden Rule. I attended a master class taught by Sam Abel at >Santa Fe and thought at the time that he had a lot of good common >sense. This article only confirmed my first impressions. I wish >somebody would knock "art" critics on the head with this kind of logic. ___________________________________________________________________ I'm not surprised at how Sam is taking this situation. I met him at a news photography seminar in 1977, and was very influenced by his pictures and his personality. He had such an aura of calm and serenity(as did his work), that it was almost a mystical experience to sit and talk with him. I wish for that "knock" too. Once I was rejected for a photo show at a Racine, Wis. museum, and when I attended the opening and was talking to the director, he indicated with his hands that art photography was "up here", and journalistic pictures were "down there". I was not impressed with a lot of the photos that ended up on the walls. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Information Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/