Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm a big fan on ms. Plachy's work too ( a personal favorite of her excellent work: Barbie Convention, 1992 http://www.pixelpress.org/contents/contents_pix/plachy2-350.jpg ) Btw, actor Adrien Brody, plays the lead in the latest Polanski, The Pianist, is her son The Winogrand show, well, it blew me away: a couple weeks ago there was a great critique in the Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/300/living/When_a_street_photographer_takes_to_America_s_open_roads+.shtml Also: his airport images are soon to be published http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1891024477/qid=1035735358/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/103-0754470-0191040?v=glance&n=507846 matteo persivale milan, italy > Don't know what she shoots with (the girl at the next table in Caffe Reggio said she uses a Leica, among other cameras) but I found her photos, at the Bateman Gallery 560 Broadway NYC, to be wonderful. The show is titled "Verso" and as the name implies is a collection of pictures of people's backs. Backs can be quite eloquent, even erotic. How's that for a teaser? In the same several days in New York I took in the Avedon show at the Met, the Winogrand at the ICP, Enzo Sellerio at the Leica Gallery, and a number of other serendipitous photo encounters. And shot several rolls with some new hardware from Rich Pinto's. I found the Avedons, many of them familiar but some less so, as impressive as always. One premise of the show is that his eye is softening as he ages, becoming more sympathetic, and surely his picture of Harold Bloom is very gentle. The picture of his wife I found to be less revealing than I expect of him, other pictures I found to reveal new dimensions when viewed on a wall rather than in a book. I enjoyed seeing 8x10 contacts of the 1976 Rolling Stone "The Family": they were as shocking and frightening now as they originally were (Donald Rumsfeld!!). I'm trying, but the Winogrands still don't speak to me. Anybody else seen these shows? bh :^)v""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" +---------+ * Get your own Jmail account.|URL= http://www.jmail.co.jp |--jmail--| * Get your own home page. |URL= http://www.servance.jp +---------+ * Get your own domain. |URL= http://domaintorou.com """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""v(^: - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html