Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/11

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Auction results
From: "David Kieltyka" <daverk@email.msn.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:48:06 -0500

slobodan dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Who's cindy sherman? Is she a photographer or an artist? Is she a bounder
> from the art world posing as a photographer like hockney, or wegman? Can
> she do and talk photography, or is she so far evolved as to be removed
> from such banalities? Is her constrained self absorbed visual style an
> example of craft or is it a secretion of miseducated art school vomiteria.

:-) I like Cindy Sherman myself. Maybe it helps that I discovered her work
apart from the insufferable post-Modern trendoisie crowd who've elevated her
to near sainthood. I'm pretty sure she doesn't even think of herself as a
photographer much less take active interest in the nuts & bolts of
photography beyond whatever she requires to do her thing. I'm also pretty
sure she finds all the fuss made over her work highly amusing.

- -Dave-