Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I like many others found the show to be awe inspiring- as much for the photography as for the celebration of one person's efforts to save the environment. I have always been a fan of AA. What suprises me is the way he is sometimes disparaged in some photographic circles. The negative reaction that he generates is difficult to understand. I think much of it may be not so much his photography or him but the way his art has sometimes been foisted onto the general public as the "only real american photographer". Mind you this is not my opinion but the effect of 1] being very very talented and 2] having an agressive Trust organization to promote things after death. I believe this maybe what some object to. Much like Frank Lloyd Wright - except in this case FLW was not a very nice person ( my take of him) but his architecture is sooo wonderful. The show was worth missing 6 feet under - my wife was sent into the other room to record all the plot lines in 6FU. ernie nitka 4/22/02 8:46:00 AM, SthRosner@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 4/22/02 1:45:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >red735i@earthlink.net writes: > >> If you did not see the show, you missed the most inspirational 1 1 /2 hours >> on phtotgraphy. Try to get a video from a friend. > >Yes, Frank, also a magnificent journey of the human spirit and an accurate >description of one aspect of the American national psyche that most people >miss. I spent four months during the summers of my 14th and 15th years >working in the Rocky Mountain West and the feeling for the western wilderness >has never left me. > >My wife missed it and as PBS sells the video for $19.95, I'm getting a copy >for her. > >Seth LaK 9 >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html