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Subject: [Leica] Annie's in trouble again
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:41:42 -0500

I should have been more precise.  I meant that in a contest for worst photo
ever made, there are Mortenson photos that are IMHO worse than the wolf
photo, as opposed to her whole body of work.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Mark Rabiner
> Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 3:50 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Annie's in trouble again
> 
> > I still think Mortenson photos were worse, but it's a matter of personal
> > taste.  Sort of like choosing between The Lost Highway and Plan 9 From
> Outer
> > Space as worst movie ever made.
> >
> > Ken
> 
> 
> 
> Yes but putting Annie Liebowitz' s body of work in the same league with
> Mortenson is not all that smart.
> Nor is putting it in the same league of "famous" bad films.
> Annie Liebowitz' s work is highly respected.
> There is no controversy of its validity.
> She has an interesting decade long history of being shot down on the LUG.
> I think we should aim at other distinctions.
> What ever issues she may be going through the validity of her body of work
> is not one of them.
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
> 
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