Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When cleaning your lenses with volatile fluids make sure you are in a well ventilated room. John Collier ;-) > From: Alexey Merz <alexey@webcom.com> > Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:41:46 -0800 > Subject: Re: [Leica] Eggleston cameras > > Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:33:42 -0600 > From: Anders Nygren <txmanyg@txm.ericsson.se> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Eggleston cameras > >> Previous [Hasselbla] prize-winners have been: (Up to 1995) >> [all wonderful photographers] > >> And some of You will be shocked to hear that the 1999 >> Hasselblad Award went >> to ........ >> ...... Cindy Sherman. > > Aaaauuggggggghhhhhhh! > >> The short intro on the Hasselblad Center web pages >> describes her as "Cindy Sherman's work is central to >> our understanding of Western visual culture during >> the eighties and nineties. > > Say *what*? > >> One of the first (and the few) of the post-modernists >> to site politics and gender issues at the center of >> her work, [...] > > *Guffaw*. She impressed the "political" downtown NYC > gallery crowd whith a series of "social critiques" > about as deep as an avrage ad in _Elle_. Like, wow, > she dressed up as Barbie on Drugs and cross processed > her film. > > Oh, man, I'm Drivin' the Porcelain Bus! > > > Alexey Merz >