RE: [Leica] Cartier-Bresson Tete-a-Tete

["Stewart, Alistair" <AStewart@gigaweb.com>]

Ah, Jonathan,

you are right. Can't post to the LUG without a clear point :=)

So, my point is that several LUGers, let alone countless other contemporary
silver halide artists, have work that stands, on any evaluation, head and
shoulders above His, and elevates the medium far more than Mr. Artless Art
ever did. But the dealers don't stand to get rich off their work since the
market is as yet unmade. The new work isn't 'promoted' and the medium gets
mired in the old cliches. Es claro?

best of light,

Alistair

- -----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Borden [mailto:jborden@mediaone.net]
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 8:37 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Cartier-Bresson Tete-a-Tete


The point being ... ?

Jonathan Borden
Stewart, Alistair wrote:
>
>
> OK, I may be dense here, but why are we continuing to deify
> HasCountlessBenefitsfromhisfamily?
>
> Know what? The world has actually rotated a bit since HCB married
> surrealism
> and photography. Get over it.
>
> I propose to the LUG that although His shoes would fit my, and our, feet
> poorly, there are thousands of better, yes, better, photographers
> out there
> today whose work gets
> 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of
> the coverage
> that He does.
>
> Please, get over it and let's move on to another niveau which is unrelated
> to constructing a market so the print dealers can make even more
> money than
> they already have.
>
> OK, ok, can you guys hold off for a moment, please? I'm having
> some trouble
> with my asbestos suit here. My gonads seem to have got caught in
> the zipper.
>
> later
>
> Alistair