Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/16

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Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: Eggleston: art photography
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:54:58 -0000

I don't know if he said it, but in today's incredibly commercial art world,
it is indeed true...And, frankly, more power to those who set out to achieve
commercial/ financial success, figure out what the public will go for, and
have the stomach to produce it....I don't go for Geddes's "flower children,"
but I sure have to admire her having come up with such a commercially
successful idea, and having made it work....

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of George
Huczek
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 12:37 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] RE: Eggleston: art photography


At 06:26 PM 15/02/2000 -0000, B.D. wrote:
>John - Everything you've said is unquestionably true. It is not true,
>however, that all art is good art. Crap often masquerades as art.
>

Wasn't it George Bernard Shaw who once remarked, "Art is anything you can
get away with."