[Leica] Another OKCLUG Field Trip

[Robert Baron]

Well said, Douglas.  I could not have put it better myself.

--Bob

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Bob, do you not realise that six months of any fine arts degree in any
> university specifically focuses on ways of portentously mangling the
> English
> language in new ways to describe an artist's work.
>
> Part of that period is devoted to muscular flexibility, specifically
> honing the skill that manifests itself in the uncanny ability to stick
> one's head up one's own arse and declaim fictions flecked with faeces with
> a straight, and, indeed, even haughty face.
>
> In the bios, I particulurly enjoyed "His camera freezes the flow of
> everyday life and the movement of people" as this represents that other
> skill of the curator - the one that takes a banal, basic, and bleedin'
> obvious fact and imbues the sentence that contains it with a faux reverence.
>
> Douglas
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Baron" <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 1:06 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Another OKCLUG Field Trip
>
>
> Yesterday the officers and members of the OKCLUG went to an exhibit of
>> pieces from the Bank of America photograph collection on display at the
>> Oklahoma Contemporary Art Foundation (
>> http://oklahomacontemporary.org/exhibits/current-exhibits/shared-space/)
>> at
>> the State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City.  It was, ahem, educational,
>> particularly the Artist Statements.
>>
>> The Artist Bios are at
>>
>> http://oklahomacontemporary.org/exhibits/current-exhibits/shared-space/shared-space-artist-bios/
>>
>>
>> I took this photograph of co-president Ken Carney looking at the only two
>> 'silver gelatin' prints on display:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bob+Baron/W_L4001387c1KenLooks.jpg.html
>>
>> We did take some interesting shots of the parking lot but they'll have to
>> wait to be posted later.
>>
>> --Bob
>>
>>