Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But Guy the problem is that they played the sax as good as Picasso and painted as good as Coleman (ok, so now someone's going to tell me that Picasso was a terrific tenor sax player :-). Steve - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of bennett Sent: 03 August 2002 18:33 To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] WOW! [or Why-Oh-Why] my final response >People have been keen to dismiss the work in various ways and I thanks >you for being honest in the way you label it (as you see it). But if it >really is just snaps, shouldn't we all just be able to reproduce such >shots? Dog or no dog? Stuart Phillips We all should, but obviously none of us ever has. (Or I suppose that our pictures would be currently featured on Leica's site.) The comment that "anybody could do it" is common to a certain kind of disparaging art criticism that has been applied to everybody from Picasso to Ornette Coleman, though obviously there has only been one of each. In my poetic moments I imagine with a smile all of the lost cubist masterpieces and plastic saxophones lying forgotten in the penumbra of dusty suburban closets... Guy - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html