Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]HCB also famously told Raghubir Singh that photographing India was easy... Thus turning away one of the top talents of the last thirty years. - -- Rob http://www.robertappleby.com Mobile: (+39) 348 336 7990 Home: (+39) 059 303436 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Martin Parr > I agree with you, I just feel it could have been done better. How many Hard > Rock Café tees do you want to see in a single book? Plus I feel there's a > whole lot more to tourism than just that - the exploitation, environmental > aspects, destruction of local cultures, and so on. Parr's approach is > satirical and caustic, va bene, but can you live in a diet of farce? > > He's a terrific talent, and since the early british seaside books, has not > done anything that really bore out that talent, IMO. > > -- Rob > > http://www.robertappleby.com > Mobile: (+39) 348 336 7990 > Home: (+39) 059 303436 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Amundsen" <andy@tcinternet.net> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 10:13 PM > Subject: [Leica] Martin Parr > > > > >From: "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com> wrote (snip): > > > > > Parr is fascinating. I was very very impressed with him in the late > > > eighties, but he seems to have lost a lot of his edge. "Last Resort" is > > > pretty good, but "Small World" about global tourism really failed to > make > > > any kind of sustained point, despite the occasional excellent snap. > > > > To me he's showing the absurdity of how we can look and act as tourists. > > > > He was acussed of ridiculing mankind in his work and he resonded that > > mankind IS ridiculous. > > HCB I read actually confronted Parr to tell him how he "was from a > > completely different planet" than himself. > > > > It's a great chapter in the book: > > 'MAGNUM-Fifty years at the front line of history' > > by Russell Miller,Grove Press 1997 ,That goes into Parr's membership > issue > > at Magnum, pages 294-298. > > > > It's a great book and quite interesting in it's membership > > dynamics,infighting,competition,"Artist' Vs. 'Journalist', etc... and all > > the history of it's creation and members lives. > > > > ~Andrew > > -- > > 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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html