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Subject: [Leica] Mortensen, was The Worst Photograph Ever Made?
From: durling at cox.net (durling@cox.net)
Date: Thu Feb 26 05:29:19 2009

I've swung between hate and love of Mortensen's work over the years.  On
one hand, the guy with the fingers in the eyes is arguably one of the worst
photos ever made, not taken.  Yet there is something in his technique that
is appealing.  He had a way with working with the surface textures and his
pre-digital manipulation is very interesting.  He had a good eye for light.
Some of the theatricality is best forgotten, but it is an essential part of
the work.

Someone who took his techniques and used them on more conventional subject
matter is Robert Balcomb, one of Mortensen's students.   His work can be
seen at
http://www.thescreamonline.com/photo/photo06-01/balcomb/photonotes_balcomb.h
tml  There is a link to an article about him at the bottom of the page.

Mike Durling

Original Message:
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From: Mark Rabiner mark@rabinergroup.com
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:43:01 -0500
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: Re: [Leica] The Worst Photograph Ever Made?


And they're excellent.
An astonishingly excellent photographer.
http://www.geh.org/ar/strip35/htmlsrc2/mortensen_sum00003.html#78:1643:0052


Mark William Rabiner





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