Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Documentation has been one of the main uses of art for at least 2000 years, so I don't understand his point. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 11/14/12 5:31 PM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote: >PESO: > >This is a letter from the New York TImes Book Review. Do you agree that >you can create art only when it's your intention to do so? > >To the Editor: > >I read with interest Deborah Solomon?s >review<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/books/review/short-nights-of-the- >shadow-catcher-by-timothy-egan.html> >of >?Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal >Photographs >of Edward Curtis,? by Timothy Egan (Oct. 28). Solomon is a talented >biographer ? I thoroughly enjoyed ?Utopia Parkway? ? but she completely >missed the point of Curtis?s life when she referred to him as a great >artist. Though galleries try to promote Curtis?s work as art, it?s really >more ethnographic photography. While Curtis obviously had a strong >aesthetic sensibility, the intention behind his work was documentation of >a >vanishing race. You can create art only when it?s your intention to do so. > >RICHARD POLSKY >Sausalito, Calif. >*The writer is the author of ?The Art Prophets: The Artists, Dealers, and >Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World.?* > >Tina > >- >Tina Manley, ASMP >www.tinamanley.com > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information