Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/10

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Subject: [Leica] Blurb
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 23:19:47 -0500
References: <CA+yJO1AJ1BVpEf1qKTCHeTjJioka+LD1PzyLgBJ5PQNdZSVuHA@mail.gmail.com> <AB327508-96C3-450C-90B8-CFC90275830D@gmail.com>

In this case, even postmodernist blurbspeak didn?t keep the art on its feet.

?howard

> On Feb10, 2019, at 1532, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> ahh, artspeak?
> 
> art either stands for itself
> or it falls on its face
> 
> ric
> 
> 
>> On Feb 10, 2019, at 2:14 PM, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> PESO:
>> 
>> I hate the blurb that accompanies most photo exhibits:
>> 
>> The scenarios performed for Liao's camera are themselves the lens through
>> which her vision is processed, and her insistence that they are not a
>> document is clear from the way both she and Moro are reduced to tools for
>> image-making. Far from being cruel or reductive, it's the ultimate 
>> romantic
>> gambit.
>> 
>> https://www.cnn.com/style/article/pixy-liao-photography/index.html
>> 
>> Tina
>> 
>> -- 
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>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley
>> <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html>
>> 
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