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Subject: [Leica] Famous Parent-Child Artists in different media?
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:15:33 -0500

On a photo list, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Westons yet.
Edward and all four of his sons were photographers. One of the sons,
Brett, became very famous as a landscape photographer, like his father.

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On 12/31/12 12:50 PM, "Robert Baron" <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>What about Pablo Picasso (painter, sculptor) / Paloma Picasso (jewelry and
>fashion designer)?
>
>Are their (visual) media too similar?
>
>==On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Benjamin Marks
><benmarks2005 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Good one Steve, but these are all in the same field (music) like the
>> Bachs.  Any in different fields like the Renoirs/
>> +++++++++++++
>> Steve Barbour wrote:
>>
>> how about...?
>>
>>
>>
>> shostakovich,   father and son
>>
>> Ravi Shankar Norah Jones
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Benjamin Marks <benmarks2005 at gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:50 AM
>> Subject: Famous Parent-Child Artists in different media?
>> To: lug at leica-users.org
>>
>>
>> My friend Christian Keathley of Middlebury College asked me the
>>following
>> question: "Pierre August Renoir (painter) and Jean Renoir (film maker)
>>were
>> both masters in their mediums. Can you think of any other parent-child
>> artists pairs who were similarly gifted *in different media* as these
>>two
>> were?" I could not think of any. The Bachs came to mind but they were
>>all
>> in the same medium (music). Irving Penn (photo) and Arthur Penn
>> (film/theater, "Yeah, my brother Irv takes pictures . . .") were both
>> masters of their media, but they were brothers, not father and son ...
>>LUG
>> cloud: any wisdom on the subject?
>>
>> A solution to this (and I am not sure there is one) would require that
>>the
>> parent and child be both recognized as masters (e.g. If, hypothetically,
>> Frank Lloyd Wright had a child who was only a competent cellist, that
>> wouldn't count).
>>
>> Happy New Year all.
>>
>> Ben Marks
>>
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