Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]:-) Reminds me of the time son Ben, then in High School as I recall, and I went into the Guggenheim to see the Wegman (who we both loved and still love) show. Some docent was walking around with a reverent crowd, giving them some lecture about how Wegman's work represented a rebellion against the strictures of something or other...Ben cracked up, started laughing out loud, and turned to me and said - loud enough to be heard - "what a load of crap! The guy's a comedian with a camera." Out of the mouths of sons... :-) -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted Grant Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 7:43 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: was Multiple Bodies, now cropping-phooey! David Mason offered: Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: was Multiple Bodies, now cropping-phooey! > OK - If I hadn't made enemies before... I probably will now, but here > goes. I simply don't like Ansel Adam's work and never have. Certainly > they are beautiful places and he made great photos of those places but > they do almost nothing for me. I just don't get it, sorry. Plus they > are sooooooo overplayed (which is not his fault of course).<<<<<<<<<< Hi Dave, Yer such a bad boy sayin' that stuff about the World's Greatest dark room technician! ;-) Boy the darkroom techies will get you by the Zone 64 and they're goin' to zone you into a bottle of fixer!! .:-) :-) :-) You might be getting "mooned by the Hernandez if yer not careful!" ;-) While visiting a buddy of mine in London a few years back, he at the time was working for Reuter's wire service heard there was an Ansel Exhibition so we went to see what the great rock & fern photographer's work looked like up close and in yer face. Of course we both were of the same opinion, that without question he was an incredible darkroom technician and that's why his prints and photos got all the praise. He also appeared to have the best "marketing crew" in the world and still has. In any event, there we both were with an M6 Leica hanging off a shoulder checking out the prints. It was like being in a tomb, everyone was dead silent.... accept us! :-) "Denis, look at this one, it's the same rock in the picture over there!" And we were having a ball pulling tails as wild as we dare amongst these groupies who were wetting their pants over the prints. Peeing in silence one might say! ;-) "Yeah he's not bad but I wonder if they have Gene Smith's beautiful real photography around here?" Denis the younger, blurted this out just loud enough that someone complained about those two "over their being derogatory about the Master!" So we were asked to leave! Damn, they were serious and we'd hardly said a word. Only the truth! :-) The Brits and Ansel groupies have no sense of humour and take all this "great photographer" stuff way to seriously. Hell he was just a photographer like everyone else, but without question the best damn darkroom guy I've ever seen in my life. On the way out, escorted to the door of course, ;-) we passed a huge stack of Ansel books for sale, when Denis says out loud, "Oh wait there's a book I want." Then walked right by the Ansel books taking a large copy of the Eugene Smith book, "Let Truth be the Prejudice" and once again out loud, "Now this guy really knew how to take pictures!" Smiled as he got his money out to pay for it. I couldn't resist went over and got a copy for myself. :-) Sacrilege! ;-) The "rock & fern" folks were agog at these two scoundrels, with Leica's of course, ;-) making a big thing out of Smith and his picture taking when they were displaying the "Master" in the gallery! OK Dave now you wont be alone in the glue! ;-) ted _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information