[Leica] Winogrand: Another Retrospective Perspective

[Jim Shulman]

My favorite comment on the topic of serious art comes from Bette Midler: "I
am now an artiste. That means I don't have to take my clothes off for the
show."
On Aug 10, 2014 4:15 PM, "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:

> I like the concluding paragraph a lot:
>
> "Something we've been missing also becomes evident here. The whole world is
> now filled with incredible images--especially on Instagram and other social
> networks--that owe something to Winogrand's, documenting life, change, and
> all the rest. Yet the art world and museums are not. Instead they tend to
> show oversize, very still pictures or images that investigate formal
> properties and ideas of display and presentation. I love many of those
> pictures, but what's happening online on social media deserves far more
> serious scrutiny than it's getting. If the art world doesn't admit more of
> this sort of deceptively casual-seeming work, the outside world will reject
> more so-called art photography than it already does. That's a divide that
> we don't need to reestablish and widen."
>
> The Art Photography circa 2014 leave me cold.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> http://www.vulture.com/2014/08/art-review-garry-winogrand-retrospective.html
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