Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 12/4/00 6:01:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, john@pinkheadedbug.com writes: << And I never read a single word of his that implied he had ever questioned his method, or looked into his soul to find a picture. There is no sense of struggle, except the technical struggle he certainly won. What does that leave me with? The uncomfortable sense that I am looking at, if not pornography, then the photographic equivalent of, like I say, Singer Sargeant, Tschaikowsky or the later Wordsworth. Magnificent wallpaper. >> Presumably, the reference to Tchaikowsky relates to the previous post concerning only the 1812 Overture. The comment would not be even remotely applicable to his body of work as a whole, nor to his approach to either his life or his music. Joe Sobel