Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lee Bacchus jotted down the following: > Atget's peopleless shots worked because they were foreshadowing the end of > an era as industrialization in Paris hit full stride. I realize I'm going to get thoroughly publically roasted for admitting this - -- especially by Johnny Deadman -- but I don't think Atget's photos do work. They only work because they are a historical record, because we recognize significance as a result of subsequent social change, but as photographs in their own right, I find many of them quite bland, banal, and boring. The Eggelston of the 1910s, in black and white. M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | People don't like to be parameters email: howard.390@osu.edu | in an equation. www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------