Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geddes I agree on - poster art for the purile; photography for the Kincade crowd; the Weggman of the wittless. But Eggleston I can appreciate, even if he's not my kind of photographer. ___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com ...... Original Message ....... On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:38:01 -0400 Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: " From time to time I hit the shelves at Barnes and Noble or Borders. I "would sooner stick one of my body parts in an electric socket than pick "up Eggleston's or Anne Geddes' books. My aversion may be pathological "and could be I need some of B.D.'s pills? Holy Haysus though, I could "photograph them both being burned at the stake. " "I'd rather join Dante and be hyperventilating in hell than be forces to "see one more Weirmeraner in a coat and tie. " "Matt Powell wrote: " ">Eggleston is most successful when his subjects are alive - people or ">even animals (the dog lapping at a pool of muddy water in William ">Eggleston's Guide). I don't know if he has a disarming presence or if ">something else is in play, but his living photographs have a way of ">transporting you into the warm, humid southern world he's ">photographing. There's not a level of artifice built-in like there is ">with the numerous people who've followed him. "> ">His, uh, still-life work (all the interior shots, the tricycle, etc.) ">are less interesting than similar photographs by people like Stephen ">Shore. Maybe I just don't see the method in that particular madness. "> ">-- ">MP ">wooderson@gmail.com "> "> ">_______________________________________________ ">Leica Users Group. ">See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information "> "> "> "> " "_______________________________________________ "Leica Users Group. "See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information