Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Who's cindy sherman? Is she a photographer or an artist? Is she a bounder from the art world posing as a photographer like hockney, or wegman? Can she do and talk photography, or is she so far evolved as to be removed from such banalities? Is her constrained self absorbed visual style an example of craft or is it a secretion of miseducated art school vomiteria. Slobodan Dimitrov - -----Original Message------ From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Sent: December 11, 2000 6:08:34 AM GMT Subject: Re: [Leica] Auction results For me, this list is a sad commentary on what passes for "art photography" these days. To see Cindy Sherman on top of a list is an abomination, as is the absence of people like Salgado, Koudelka, Cartier-Bresson etc. etc. This is a case of the Emperor's New Clothes. Nathan Erwin Puts wrote: > After discussing WWII and the bombing of Dresden, (neo)nazis, pornography > and a slew of other topics, that are intimately related to the use of Leica > cameras, maybe this list is really off-topic. Below is a list of the top ten > current photographers, as ranked by their combined auction sales. > Cindy Sherman, USA, 1954 > Thomas Struth. Germany, 1954 > Andreas Gursky, Germany, 1955 > Gibert & George, UK, 1943/1942 > Charles Ray, USA, 1953 > Nan Goldin, USA, 1953 > Richard Prince, USA, 1949 > Andres Serrano, USA, 1950 > Bruce Nauman, USA, 1941 > Thomas Ruff, Germany, 1958. > SNIP - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/