Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am with you, I don't much like her current brand of photography. Seems like a soft core Rankin (a photographer whose works I detest), but you cannot deny her pop star status amongst current working photographers. My guess is she is doing all this purely for the money, I remember reading that she got bankrupted by a structured financial deal gone wrong (surprise, surprise), if that is so, one can hardly blame her. I thought the article was interesting enough though. Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote: > She may have been a great photographer years ago, but I find her ideas now > to be disturbing. She uses the camera to create images of pure fantasy and > totally discounts the use of photography to connect to and document > reality. When JM Cameron used her friends to give form to powerful > religious and literary ideas (a practice she abandoned) she aimed > didactically at important social and spiritual issues. Leibovitz' ability > to turn any of us into a Disney character is just frightening and > pretentious: > > "Those of us who are photographers, the difference between us and everyone > else is that we take what we do very seriously." > > Ugh! OTOH, she cites (and misunderstands) a nice New Republic piece by Jed > Perl. He makes a few really intelligent digs at the newly reconfigured > Aperture: > > > http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112390/aperture-magazine-relaunched-art-photography-digital-age# > > -Lew Schwartz > > > On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com > >wrote: > > > > > > http://www.fastcocreate.com/1683295/annie-leibovitz-on-getting-the-shot-and-the-future-of-photography#1 > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >