Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Aperture....
From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@home.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:50:37 -0700
References: <002101c15e6c$8508a620$82120e18@phnx1.az.home.com> <p04330100b7ffb6d576a5@[209.178.161.137]>

Thanks Austin...I love      //Sprezzatura.net        ....... Steve



- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Burbridge" <sprezzatura@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Aperture....


> Dear Steve, Before you respond to the pitch, go to a
> bookstore/newsstand and have a look at a current number.
>
> Long ago, under Minor White's stewardship, Aperture built a mighty
> reputation as the top top-drawer periodical devoted to 'fine art
> photography'. Until recently that reputation was well-deserved.
>
> Aperture used to be in the vanguard of photography. Now its contents
> are tediously stale, while it gives off the acrid aroma of
> desparation, as it tries -- too hard -- to be fashionable, and ends
> up smarmy, and dull.
>
> I let my (expensive) subscription lapse after Aperture No. 156, which
> featured a fawning, obsequious publicity-puff called "An interview
> with" the pop-music entertainer, Madonna. The issue's theme,
> "Male/Female" would have been au courant in 1973, and only sophmoric
> in 1982; but at the date of its publication -- 1999 -- is was, and
> remains, jejeune.
>
> Recently Aperture has 'relaunched' and, in a bid to increase
> circulation, has turned itself into something very ordinary indeed.
> If you like what you see in the new Aperture, you should look at its
> competitors, Blind Spot, and Double Take, which have defined the
> market for which it now competes.
>
> Now, Aperture is just one magazine among others, not the unique and
> excellent bellweather it once was.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> A U S T I N .
>
> http://sprezzatura.net -- Creative inspiration with a twist
>
>
>
>
> >I received a compelling ad for a photo mag that I am not familiar
> >with...Aperture....should know...don't know.
> >
> >I have not yet got my hands on an issue.... your thoughts on
Aperture?......
> >coverage of Leica related topics or photographers?..... thanks for your
> >input......
> >
> >
> >Steve
> >
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In reply to: Message from "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@home.com> ([Leica] Aperture....)
Message from Austin Burbridge <sprezzatura@earthlink.net> (Re: [Leica] Aperture....)