Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kim Do all those photographers listed spell their names with lower case letters? I thought that ee cummings was the only person worthy of that. Jerry Teresa299@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 1/5/03 12:17:56 PM, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: > > << Amen! To say nothing of the fact that much of the most successful and > popular fashion photography serves up the degrading, the 'degenerate,' > the pathetic and the 'perverse' as that to which we should all aspire - > remember 'heroin chic?' Sexually provocative poses by underage models, > or those who look under age? Certainly there's allot of creative fashion > photography - and I assume that Martin is referring to studio type > fashion work, Ted, not shooting runway models. But the question is how > that creativity is being used. It's a lonnnnnng way from early Avedon to > the Calvin Klein underwear ads. > > B. D. >> > > > > I'm running through my mind who I think are some of the most successful > current fashion photographers and the images they serve up. The names that > come to mind are steven meisel, pablo roversi, demarchalier, michel comte, > david lachapelle, bruce weber, mario testino, ellen von unwerth, bettina > rheims, walter chin, sarah moon, avedon, ritts (ok so he's not current > anymore)....I'm sure there are many others...but of those listed I'm having a > hard time thinking of their work as serving up "the degrading, the > 'degenerate,' the pathetic and the 'perverse' ." > > Creativity is often stunted and altered in the face of commercial > (particularly advertising) issues....this isn't just the case in fashion > photography. It seems to be the nature of the beast where as an artist > attempting to survive off your art, you must be reasonably attuned to the > hand (or in this case client) who is feeding you. But it seems to me that > condemning all (or even "much of")fashion photography because of heroin chic > or underware ads is kinda like condeming all of hip hop because of gangsta > rap. > > Kim > -- > 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