Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:25 AM 11/29/1999 -0800, Roy Feldman wrote: >Eggleston, the only color photographer to have a one man show at MOMA and >author of 5 major photography books and reciepient of the (1998) >Hasselblad Award (a camera he doesn't use). Eggleston contends that he >follows Evans instructions to the letter. Well, no wonder he likes Evan's quote, since it makes him, a color photographer, look special. All of the photographers I've mentioned in my book are better photographers than Eggleston. And MOMA is hardly a bastion of photography anyway, is it? Photographers have to stop looking for validation from other media. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture. -Ernst Haas, "More Joy of Photography"