Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 11-03-01 00:57:13 GMT Standard Time, MEB@goodphotos.com writes: << I think that they are both marginal photographers at best relying more on the provocative nature of their subject to carry their 'child' work. >> I am sorry, but how you can describe the work of Jock Sturges and Sally Mann as marginal is beyond me. I find the work f both, and particularly that of Jock Sturges, to be beautiful and evocative. I find nothing in it that borders anywhere near the pornographic in any way what so ever. Jock has built up a very close relationship with the family he photographs most often and has been like an uncle to those children from a very early age. What he is doing is chronicling their life as they reach maturity as part of a naturist family. The thought police are currently investigating the exhibition of an American photographer here in London at the Getty Gallery (I think) because it contains naked pictures of his own children. I photographed my children naked when they were growing up, and I would suggest that most of you have. Somewhere I have a picture that my wife and I jokingly said that we would advertise as 'blonde naked in red boots' which is of my daughter, then 3, on the beach in a pair of rubber boots and nothing else having a great time. Does this make me perverted? Gerry Gerry Walden (UK) Tel: (0)23 8046 3076 Fax: (0)23 8034 8542