Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A Holga? - --- Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com> wrote: > > > I was in San Francisco these past few days, and > spent Monday shooting in > and around SFMOMA and the Yerba Buena Center for the > Performing Arts. > Afterwards, I walked over to the Ansel Adams Friends > of Photography Museum > to see the Annie Liebowitz show "Women." As I > stepped up to the ticket > counter the young man working there looked at the > black M6 around my neck > and asked: "Hey! Is that a Holga?" I fumbled for a > moment and said, "Well > ... kind of." He said: "Oh man, they are so cool!" > > No lie. > > Guy > > > P.S. The Liebowitz photos were huge ink jet prints > of portraits from her > book. The size of the images was quite impressive: > many were quite tall (up > to 6 feet, it seemed to me), and had to be created > using more than one > sheet of paper, joined together like wallpaper. This > in my opinion > definitely detracted from the quality of the prints. > (Personally, I'd like > to be able to compare the ink jets to traditional > prints, just to satisfy > my own curiosity - next time I see Annie, I'll ask > her to arrange that for > me). At any rate, some of the portraits were rather > compelling. Liebowitz > is not one of my favorite photographers, but I was > definitely moved by what > she was able to capture - particularly in one > portrait of three high > society ladies from Houston, lunching together - and > some of the comments > she makes through the presentation of her subjects, > such as a "before" and > "after" study of a Las Vegas Showgirl, all made up > and in costume in one > shot, then, without the make-up and costume in > another: on the one hand all > flash and glamor, on the other, a kind of simple > homeliness, in both cases > a blank, unfeeling gaze. Chilling! ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie