Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I finally got to see the book "Faces of Ground Zero." What a piece of...oops...forgot we're in gentile company. It is by far the worst example of portraiture I've come across in a long, long time. I have seen better examples of children's books that portray 'mom and dad's' occupations. I can see why the LA Times review was guarded, given the inflamed sensibilities at the moment. An then of course with Bushkrieg going on, it makes for a touchy issue. However, as a photographer, and a portraitist, it is very, and I mean very hard to sit silently on a sideline while this kind of tripe is larded on us. It just reinforces my opinion that he is nothing more than a mere wall decorator, i.e. a decorative photographer. But then considering the publications that hire him, which are about as challenging as a lemon meringue pie, I'm not surprised. What incenses me, is that those people which he photographed, deserved a whole lot more than what he was capable of. Now, sitting there for all of history to see, is this tawdry little trifle, imbedding itself as a stain from some kind of excretion. Even the Rolling Stone photographer did a much better piece, albeit itself a bit timid and too grounded in convention. At least the subjects were portrayed with a a sense of life, and with a personality emanating from their eyes. A redeeming part of the trip to the book store was seeing Tina's piece in PF. Slobodan Dimitrov - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html