Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Cartier-Bresson Tete-a-Tete
From: "Lee, Ken" <ken.lee@hbc.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:19:00 -0500

Why must you attack someone just because you don't happen to like his work?
I was very moved by the portraits on the web site from the "tete a tete".
Does this mean there is something wrong with me? Why can't you like
something without attacking something else?

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stewart, Alistair [SMTP:AStewart@gigaweb.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, October 31, 1999 10:22 PM
> To:	'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Subject:	RE: [Leica] Cartier-Bresson Tete-a-Tete
> 
> 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