Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] E******* WAS sherman, now, you are alright Nathan.
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:41:13 -0700
 
Of course you are not "dense". Everyone has different tastes and interests.
What a boring world it would be if we all liked exactly the same thing! What
gets me screaming in terror at night is the thought of all art being
personally produced by Anne Gedes.


(space to let the horror of that statement to sink in)


Still many people like the stuff as it does seem at times to be EVERYWHERE.

Whimper

John Collier

> From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch>
> 
> Don't get me wrong. I realize that many of the artists whom we consider
> to be classics today were ridiculed and misunderstood in their own time.
> I make an honest effort to see and understand modern art, including art
> photography. I even subscribe to Katalog, a Danish art photography
> magazine published in English. But I just don't get the meaning of
> Eggleston and Sherman. Maybe I am just too dense...