RE: [Leica] RE: meaningless photography and...

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

Don't want to know! ;-) But then it's no secret that I consider Sontag
extremely bright and also extremely insightful - and also incredibly pompus
and self-important...:-)
'
B. D.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Bill
> Franson
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 4:53 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] RE: meaningless photography and...
>
>
> >
> >In terms of who is The Capitalist Photographer? On the one hand, Tina is
> >right...it's who ever is THE vacuous advertising photographer of
> the moment
> >who is making the most money....But that also misses the mark,
> I'm afraid,
> >as those folks aren't consciously pushing a philosophy of any
> kind, they are
> >selling product...which, I know, advances capitalism, but that's not the
> >purpose of their photos, per se.
> >
> >As to who is the "anti-Evans," or "anti-Gene Richards" for that
> matter....I
> >don't think there is such a person...Unless, as Tina has in
> effect argued,
> >you would say that it is any talented, succesful, photographer
> who squanders
> >his/her talent on socially meaningless work in return for large lumps of
> >cash....WAIT!!!!!!....It's....
> >
> >ANNIE LEIBOVITZ!!!!!!!!!
> >
> >B. D.
>
> I seem to recall hearing that Susan Sontag and Annie Leibovitz are good
> friends. Wonder what they talk about?
>
> Bill Franson
>