Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I like Moholy-Nagy very much though I remember he also did some stuff more in the classical French street style of Kertesz and Ilse Bing and Brassai (three Hungarians and a German) plus to a lesser degree HCB -- the style dating back to Atget. (They all ended up in Paris round 1925 to 1930, I think and Atget died somewhere in that period.) The M-N Bauhaus things look more Surreal, kind of like Man Ray but earlier. On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > Mark > > I saw this picture earlier today because I was looking for something else > > and ended up on the LUG gallery home page and your mug was on there among > > the other galleries that came up and I saw you have four pictures up now > > instead of two so I checked it out. > > > > And I liked it very much. > > > > As much as I liked it I also like hearing you talk about it (which is > seeing > > you write about it but you write in your own voice so it's just like > hearing > > you talk). > > > > Someday before I croak I'm going to start a list of the people I've known > > who seem to me to be Real Artists -- not hte most accomplished I've known > > perhaps nor the most famous, just undeniably the real thing, live it eat > it > > sleep it etc and can't do otherwise -- and though I know you only through > > this venue and for a short time I suspect strongly your name will be on > > there. > > > > Vince > > > Thanks Vince thinking of myself or being considered by sombody to be an > "artist" is not such a highfalutin stretch for me as I was an "art major" > in > college and that 's all I was taught and was part of my mind set the whole > time. This was when the most you'd pay for a photo in a gallery was 4o > bucks. The mid 70's. > When I started out I didn't think of myself as a "photographer" but someone > who used photography as one of many print making techniques. I was a > commercial artist. But my work got more focused and less artsy fartsy and > "cleaner" as all my colored backdrops got used up and I was left with White > paper.. And a camera. It was much easer being Photoshop after Photoshop was > invented. > My adviser in college in St. Louis came out of the Chicago New Bauhaus was > always quoting L?szl? Moholy-Nagy. Myron was also a member of the > Repertory > company which we had and was my original involvement over there I am an x > theater person. > It was always " Moholy says this or Moholy said that". > I liked that. It influenced me. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > http://photographyhistory.blogspot.com/2008/02/from-dada-to-bauhaus-moholy-n > agy.html<http://photographyhistory.blogspot.com/2008/02/from-dada-to-bauhaus-moholy-n%0Aagy.html> > Or > http://tinyurl.com/yhqtjpz > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >