Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/31

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Subject: [Leica] William Eggleston on the Today Show
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:48:46 +0530
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Chris,
If that is the explanation, I still don't get it! (-:

I am in Richard's camp - I really do not like Eggleston - his photographs
look banal to me.

On the other hand I just got my copy of Bruce Davidson's 'Outside Inside' -
it is stunning both in the quality of content and the printing - highly
recommended. I got it from Amazon UK with free delivery to India.
Considering it weighs half a ton, that was a big saving by itself. This the
link, though I paid only GBP 110 for it a month ago:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bruce-Davidson-Outside-Journey-Consciousness/dp/386521908X/ref=sr_1_1

Publisher link with sample pages:
http://www.steidlville.com/books/958-Outside-Inside.html

Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Chris Saganich <csaganich at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Eggleston is interesting, he is non-Descartes, not existential, but focused
> on remembering the familiar.  He is factual but is mostly driven by
> composition and light.  Reminds me mostly of Plato's idea that we forget or
> overlook the obvious, that our history is forgetting the familiar.  I wish
> I
> has Szarkowski's foward for the Eggleston Guide.
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Like it or not, he certainly has a lot of "followers" to his photographic
> > methods. I have to agree with the New York Times assessment though - I
> just
> > don't get that kind of photography.
> >
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > >  http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/43223662#43223662
> > >
> > > You wanna see some Leicas?  Look in his safe.......
> > >
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