RE: [Leica] Re : Nachtwey's Capas, >> >Salgados, Evans, etc

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

What bookstores have you been hanging out in....You're much more likely to
find the photo section of most American book stores that have a photo
section stuffed with dogs dressed as people, babies dressed as easter eggs,
pairs of mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, and
every other kind of feel good dreck imaginable - and, no, I do NOT consider
Wegman's work dreck, so don't respond to that - than you are the works of
Salgado, Nachtwey, the Turnleys, etc. MOST people buy photo books to "look
at the pretty pictures."

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> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
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> CamraLuvr@aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 11:45 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re : Nachtwey's Capas, >> >Salgados, Evans, etc
>
>
> I understand what Owen Evans is saying in response to Michael's view, and
> don't disagree, but I believe Michael's point is not that they took bad
> pictures, but the fact is that type of photography has become so
> popular and
> what is becoming exclusively considered art.  It's almost the
> only kind of
> photo book you can find in the average bookstore and the newer
> artists seem
> to be following suit.  The more "off the wall" in a morbid sense
> the better
> chance it has of reaching the bookstore shelves.  If I see one
> more so called
> "artsy" music video of some haggard and writhing person with black rings
> around their eyes while on a set that looks like something from Dante's
> Inferno, I'm going to scream.
> John London (CamraLuvr)
>