Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc James Small informed: "I have known Sally Mann for some 35 years or so, as I used to work for her mother, and her husband was several years ahead of me at the same college. She is one hell of a darkroom technician, arguably the best I have yet encountered. I care neither for her photographic style nor her cultural approaches, but she is a superb technician." And Kit responds: Marc-- She said the same herself, that she isn't the greatest photographer (paraphrase of her words), but that she is a great printer. (I disagree that she's not a great photographer, but her self-deprecating remark probably has more to do with the high bar she has set for herself, the mark of a true artist, and she certainly has the right to set ever-higher standards for her work). I find her work fascinating, bold, brave, intellectually and artistically challenging. She is not afraid to try an idea, and follow it wherever she leads. But I am an ultraliberal left-wing devotee of NPR, too! ;-) Kit - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html