Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/29

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: Re: [Leica] World Capitalist website photographer
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:46:38 -0400

on 29/9/00 9:43 am, Lee, Jonathan at Jonathan.Lee@hrcc.on.ca wrote:

> If there was such a thing as The World Capitalist Web site, who would they
> have as their marquee photgrapher?  I frankly can't think of a still
> photographer who could be thought of as ideologically opposite to Walter
> Evans and the like.

They are often the same people!!!

Avedon, Erwitt, Klein... advertising and fashion gurus

Robert Frank worked for Harpers (god bless Brodovitch)

Even Gary Winogrand shot some ads (fortunately they were terrible)

He who pays the piper...


- -- 
Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com