Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/17

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Subject: [Leica] self portraits
From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:37:01 +0100

At least it shows that all the fat people in the world are not in 
Florida.


>
> I liked the commentary on how he described himself as an amateur, as 
> his
> work was "created outside the recognized categories." I take that the
> categories were that of socialist realism, a State sanctioned
> methodological form  expression not too dissimilar from our own current
> Corporate Monumentalism.
> Slobodan Dimitrov
>
> Tim Atherton wrote:
>>
>>> And PLEASE, do some spotting! All that dust and hair and stuff gives 
>>> me
>>> the feeling that you really don't care about your pictures. If you
>>> don't care , why should I?
>>>
>>
>> Take a look at some Boris Mikhailov work...
>>
>> http://www.theglobalist.com/photo/saltlake/mikhailov.shtml
>>
>> http://www.partobject.com/mikhailov/bm_ex1.html
>>
>> As one esteemed Lugger has said of them:
>>
>>> The reproduction does not do the fantastic ugliness of the prints, 
>>> with
>>> their blown highlights, scratches and dust-clods, justice.
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