Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What gets me going is everything surrounding the kind of consciousness she, and her ilk, displayed. It was used during the late 60's and 70', etc., as an academic barrier. Unless a photographer could regurgitate the arcana of referential points from their canons, in their graduate school applications, they didn't get in. I should preface that my references are for California. I never bothered applying, but I had plenty of friends, and academic acquaintances, who gave me the sordid details. It's ironic that I'm currently teaching photography in a fine art dept. I preamble the beginning of the classes that this is an applied technical course, and that I will not be teaching the fine art drivel of going "outside the box." They have to give me everything teachable within the 3 1/2 month from the insides of that photographic box. In my case, at the time of her initial cultic popularity, I was working on a degree in Religious Studies. I was more prone to walk around with a copy of the Chuang Tzu, or Plotinus. I did read A.D. Coleman and the like, but only sparingly. As Earl Butz once said,"...he don't' play the game, he don't make the rules." That's how I feel about photography/art critics. They don't take the pictures, they ain't got squat to say about it. Slobodan Dimitrov Mark Rabiner wrote: > > What annoyed me about SS was that EVERYBODY was reading her. It was in > EVERYBODY'S back pocket like Rosemary's Baby. > And when everybody is reading something I hate to read it. I'd rather > read something different. > So I ended up with the book for free and saw that only every third > person was reading it; I read it. > > Anyway it's like the Zone system. Even if it's not for you you need to > be versed in it as it's a language so many fall into > after a few drinks. > > "put that bird at zone IV!" > > "What's that Photography Mean? Hell if I know!" > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > Photography > > Website: http://www.rabinergroup.com > Email: mark@rabinergroup.com > -- > 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