[Leica] Anne Leibovitz

[jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)]

And we haven't even started (again) on her partner!  ;-)

Jeffery


On Jul 7, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> I think its disdainful to see this thread come up yet one more time on the
> LUG. 
> Its called high concept photography its been around for years its not 
> rocket
> science and the LUG has been taking pot shots at the Jewish lesbian
> photographer for years - at odds with the total acclaim she gets everywhere
> else in the known civilized planet Earth. She is the master of high concept
> magazine portrait photography and her works segues into the gallery scene
> seamlessly. There's a number of photographers trying to do what she does 
> and
> not really pulling it off. Lots of photographers you get when you cant get
> Anne Leibovitz but wish you could.
> Somebody just said she was only appreciated by photographers. A real half
> assed attempt at marginalizing her work. If you lived on Mars.
> Her work is completely valued in galleries, museums by art directors and
> collectors. By the general public reading magazines in the dentist office.
> Yet the guys on the LUG have nothing but distain for her work. Big news!
> One gal on the LUG.
> We're shooting "se?oritas" and wondering why there's only one women on a
> list of hundreds to a thousand thoroughly entrenched  in mindlessness guys.
> 
> Amazing that to be photographed by Anne Leibovitz defines you as a
> celebrity.
> That was kind of also said about Avedon but not now to this hard extent.
> As to be photographed by her makes you one.
> As to be not be photographed by her makes you not one.
> Stated I think with a bit of tongue in cheek but still repeatedly stated.
> Yet there is some irony in that it has been repeatedly mentioned that for
> good reason she is more of a renown person them most of the people she
> photographs.  Perhaps until she photographs them.
> Not too many people on the LUG doing high concept photography.
> Takes some planning. Kyle's work gets there.  I'm not coming up with others
> off hand. I've done a few perhaps.
> 
> There is no controversy anywhere on planet Earth about the value of Anne
> Leibovitz' s work and her validity as a great photographer.
> Nowhere except the LUG.
> Some people don't like the way she didn't pay her bills on time. Big deal.
> Please show us a url of a journalist taking shots at Mz. Leibovitz's work. 
> I
> think it will be hard to find one. Her work not her balance sheets.
> What do you guys get out of hyping how narrow minded and ignorant  you are?
> Does it make you some kind of cool curmudgeon do you think in your own 
> mind?
> Photography is not a valid form of doing business now says the system
> administrators and finance geeks. Everybody wants to play with cheap 
> cameras
> and pontificate on the Leica list about what photography is all about. 
> Shoot
> jpegs with UV filters with consumer not even prosumer cameras and take 
> cheap
> shots at photographers who actually give a crap and do the work.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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