Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's what I thought, too! Tina On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Chris Crawford < chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > Documentation has been one of the main uses of art for at least 2000 > years, so I don't understand his point. > > -- > Chris Crawford > Fine Art Photography > Fort Wayne, Indiana > 260-437-8990 > > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > > http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 > Become a fan on Facebook > > > > On 11/14/12 5:31 PM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > >PESO: > > > >This is a letter from the New York TImes Book Review. Do you agree that > >you can create art only when it's your intention to do so? > > > >To the Editor: > > > >I read with interest Deborah Solomon?s > >review< > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/books/review/short-nights-of-the- > >shadow-catcher-by-timothy-egan.html> > >of > >?Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal > >Photographs > >of Edward Curtis,? by Timothy Egan (Oct. 28). Solomon is a talented > >biographer ? I thoroughly enjoyed ?Utopia Parkway? ? but she completely > >missed the point of Curtis?s life when she referred to him as a great > >artist. Though galleries try to promote Curtis?s work as art, it?s really > >more ethnographic photography. While Curtis obviously had a strong > >aesthetic sensibility, the intention behind his work was documentation of > >a > >vanishing race. You can create art only when it?s your intention to do so. > > > >RICHARD POLSKY > >Sausalito, Calif. > >*The writer is the author of ?The Art Prophets: The Artists, Dealers, and > >Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World.?* > > > >Tina > > > >- > >Tina Manley, ASMP > >www.tinamanley.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 > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com