Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's Leibovitz. If you're going to trash the woman's work, at least get her name right. You might try looking at some of her early work, and perhaps add an addendum to your post saying that *some* of her work is "vacuous sterility." I'm not a huge fan of her newer work either, but I think she's earned the respect as a professional to be referenced correctly. - -Paul Klingaman >From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@mail.wm.edu> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] HCB Portaits >Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:14:43 -0400 > >I once heard an anecdote from a man who'd lunched with Pound in Rapallo >after his return to Italy. Pound sat silently through the whole meal: >his only comment, after an hour or so, concerned the pasta: "Too tough," he >said. > >I believe, without checking, that at least one of these photos is in Hugh >Kenner's -The Pound Era-. > >I don't think that the comments here need necessarily "diss" HCB as a >portraitist. I suspect that the photos selected by the Post writer far >more reflect an undergraduate's sense of "who was who" during the main >years of HCB's activity than any application of aesthetic judgment. A >shame, in my opinion: "As well the well-wrought urn contains/The greatest >ashes as half-acre tombs." > >In effect, HCB is a 'great' photographer, because he happened to photograph >'great' people, which, we all know, is complete nonsense. > >And, yes, I agree with an earlier comment about the vacuous sterility of >Liebowitz's portraits. > >But, then, I think August Sanders and Avedon are the patron saints of >portrait photographers. > >Chandos > > > > >At 05:47 PM 9/29/1999 -0400, you wrote: >>. I read somewhere that when he was photographing Ezra >>Pound in Pound's later, arthritic years, that HCB just wandered around >>him making photos, each saying nothing to the other until the session >>was over and then he just left. > > > >Chandos Michael Brown >Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies >College of William and Mary > >http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com