[Leica] Article on Photography

[Richard Man]

Actually, the proof of the pudding is to wait 10-20 years, and if the
current "hot stars" stuff no longer command any values, then you know it
had been a fad.

I suspect most stuff that MFA churn out in the last 10+ years fall into
that category, no matter how much gallery spaces they suck up currently.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> George,
> I agree 100%. The reality is the marketplace, not what we want it to be in
> our dreams, and accepting reality is a necessity for a balanced view.
> Shutting our perceptions to reality on the basis of deeply cherished and
> entrenched biases is only for those who would vote for Trump..... :-) It is
> also worth keeping in mind that the word "better" is also a highly relative
> term....
>
> We can always walk away from what we do not like, but the rest will surely
> open our minds to new avenues. This, IMHO, holds good for music and the
> written word, as well as the visual arts, be it painting, photography,
> cinema, etc.
>
> I collect Modern Indian Art, and have been doing so for close to 30 years
> now. Sometimes, I do not understand how a piece of art can sell for a
> million bucks, but there is at least one person, the buyer, who does know
> why. It is worth keeping that in mind.....
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 28-Aug-2016, at 23:23, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > The article suffers greatly from its total lack of visual examples; to
> substantiate such claims; doesn't even mention specific "artists" for us to
> reference. Makes the whole critique rather meaningless.
> >
> > IMO… No matter what our age… we would do ourselves a favor to "keep up"
> not only technologically, but also aesthetically and conceptually.
> >
> >
> > a note off the iPad, George
> >
> > On Aug 28, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Interesting.
> >>
> >> http://petapixel.com/2016/05/31/opinion-disturbing-trend-photography/
> >>
> >> I agree, but then, I'm 70, too!
> >
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