Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 23/8/00 10:49 AM, Guy Bennett at guybnt@idt.net wrote: >>> In the last issue of Camera Arts I just read in the bathroom it's got a big >>> thing on Ralph Gibson who we intermittently discuss. >> >> BTW, my wife tells me that she can make a decent photobook as good as >> Gibson's out of my "failure" pics. Should I feel happy or unhappy? >> >> MIKIRO > > > mikiro, > > if your wife ever does put that book together, i'd love to see it. and > should it ever be published, i'll buy a copy and keep it on my shelf with > other masterpieces created by various people's two-year-old sisters who: > > - paint like picasso > - play saxophone like albert ayler > - write like james joyce > - etc. > > guy > Guy- I would be very flattered if you should do so. Unfortunately, I myself seem to have too spoiled eyes for photography to have a chance to enjoy such an honour. ;-) Frankly speaking, however, I am hard pressed to "appreciate" some of Gibson's shots which, to my mediocre eyes, appear products of inadvertent release of the shutter. Or, he was just in a mood of feeling and hearing the travel of that cloth shutter membrane of his M6 at those restrospectively decisive moments... I am a great fan of Gibosn and really enjoy what he writes as well as what he shoots. Cheers, MIKIRO http://arbos.silva.net