Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Herb Ritts at the Museum of Fine Arts? Easy to explain - Flavor of The Month Celebrity Shooter....If his subects were mostly bag ladies or ugly homeless people, Ritts Cracker would have had a better chance of a show at the MFA... As to Nan Goldin...Are her friends really all that interesting, or are they just sad and pathetic? B. eing pretty damn harsh and D.isrespectful today ;-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Rob Schneider-Laura Tully Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 9:43 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Eggleston Tina Manley wrote: > At 09:34 AM 2/15/00 +0000, you wrote: > >Hi > > > >Tina, I am shocked. You do realise that this is William Eggleston we are > >talking about, don't you? I have just pulled the catalogue of Ancient and > > >Modern, his exhibit at the Barbican some years ago, and your comments > are, I > >hope, about someone else. These are quite simply wonderful pictures. On > the > >wall they were nothing short of staggering; even in the book they are > pure > >dead brilliant. > > Hi, Rod: > > I was not referring to Eggleston in particular, but to all of those > photographs that I see in galleries and ask "Why?" > But since you mention Eggleston, go to this site: > http://www.masters-of-photography.com/E/eggleston > eggleston_greenville.html > And explain to me why he even bothered to print this. I guess it is > almost > scary to me that if I were editing my photos and came across one like > this, > I would file it in the round file! > > Leically, > > Tina While I like a fair number of the Eggleston photos I've seen (there's something wondrous and haunting about that green, glowing window), this one, indeed, is a puzzle. I'm still waiting for someone to explain with a straight face how Herb Ritts warranted a huge show at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Let's turn over the "inaccessible" coin and talk awhile about trite, commercial and obvious. And I think Nan Goldin is a snapshooter with "interesting" friends. Rob Schneider