Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chris, you are beginning to sound like a wine critic! (-: Actually, when I see a work of art, I would rather not go into a very complex analysis, but just decide whether I like it or not. Art has to communicate emotionally, not intellectually to be valid, IMHO(especially if you are buying the stuff to hang on your walls!). Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Chris Saganich <csaganich at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks George, refreshing to read that again. I like the part about his > work not being a step forward, meaning that as far as success in the world > of art and gallery, photography has plateaued on the fictionalized self > portrait, a la Lucas Samatras, Sherman, etc, Their work lacks factuality > and > is sufficiently self-absorbed for the modern art tastes. Eggleston is > sufficiently self-absorbed but also factual, which modern art looks down > on. His real contribution is to show the rest of us how to make color > photographs, using color as form as subject in a consistent body of work. > When I started to take his work seriously I realized that color work, done > correctly, is more difficult then B&W. I gained a similar appreciation for > Bob Dylan when I tried to play his songs. At first I thought of them as > somewhat banal, a good place to start learning. It wasn't long until I > understood just how wrong I was. > > Chris > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:22 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com > >wrote: > > > > > On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:14 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > > > I find Szarkowski eloquent above all else. He's my favorite photo > writer. > > > > >> From: Christopher Saganich <csaganich at gmail.com> > > >> > > > > >> 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. > > > > Szarkowski's introduction to Eggleston > > <http://www.egglestontrust.com/guide_intro.html> > > his conclusion: > > "As pictures, however, these seem to me perfect: irreducible surrogates > for > > the experience they pretend to record, visual analogues for the quality > of > > one life, collectively a paradigm of a private view, a view one would > have > > thought ineffable, described here with clarity, fullness, and elegance." > > > > Regards, > > George Lottermoser > > george at imagist.com > > http://www.imagist.com > > http://www.imagist.com/blog > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > -- > Chris Saganich > www.imagebrooklyn.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >