RE: [Leica] Cartier-Bresson Tete-a-Tete

["Stewart, Alistair" <AStewart@gigaweb.com>]

Ken,

sorry if you took it as an attack, it was not meant as that. It was meant as
critical, however, of the deification which we have performed on one very
talented guy.

best of light,

alistair


- -----Original Message-----
From: Lee, Ken [mailto:ken.lee@hbc.com]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 12:19 PM
To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Cartier-Bresson Tete-a-Tete


Why must you attack someone just because you don't happen to like his work?
I was very moved by the portraits on the web site from the "tete a tete".
Does this mean there is something wrong with me? Why can't you like
something without attacking something else?

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stewart, Alistair [SMTP:AStewart@gigaweb.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, October 31, 1999 10:22 PM
> To:	'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Subject:	RE: [Leica] Cartier-Bresson Tete-a-Tete
> 
> Ah, Jonathan,
> 
> you are right. Can't post to the LUG without a clear point :=)
> 
> So, my point is that several LUGers, let alone countless other
> contemporary
> silver halide artists, have work that stands, on any evaluation, head and
> shoulders above His, and elevates the medium far more than Mr. Artless Art
> ever did. But the dealers don't stand to get rich off their work since the
> market is as yet unmade. The new work isn't 'promoted' and the medium gets
> mired in the old cliches. Es claro?
> 
> best of light,
> 
> Alistair
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Borden [mailto:jborden@mediaone.net]
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 8:37 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Cartier-Bresson Tete-a-Tete
> 
> 
> The point being ... ?
> 
> Jonathan Borden
> Stewart, Alistair wrote:
> >
> >
> > OK, I may be dense here, but why are we continuing to deify
> > HasCountlessBenefitsfromhisfamily?
> >
> > Know what? The world has actually rotated a bit since HCB married
> > surrealism
> > and photography. Get over it.
> >
> > I propose to the LUG that although His shoes would fit my, and our, feet
> > poorly, there are thousands of better, yes, better, photographers
> > out there
> > today whose work gets
> > 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of
> > the coverage
> > that He does.
> >
> > Please, get over it and let's move on to another niveau which is
> unrelated
> > to constructing a market so the print dealers can make even more
> > money than
> > they already have.
> >
> > OK, ok, can you guys hold off for a moment, please? I'm having
> > some trouble
> > with my asbestos suit here. My gonads seem to have got caught in
> > the zipper.
> >
> > later
> >
> > Alistair