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Subject: [Leica] Daily Dose of Spring XLVII Single cherry blossom
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Fri Mar 31 11:02:50 2006
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Don:

I am sure your friend will do quite well with Mapplethorpe. I would 
never deny he is (or was, or still is) quite salable. My only 
observation was a personal one......His work was sharp as a tack, 
beautifully lighted and extremely well composed. Nonetheless, it was all 
"appearances" and very little communication. Unless, of course, one 
prefers D**ks to T*ts&A**. Additionally, had he focused on the latter in 
the same manner, blah blah blah and bland. ( this opinion is my own and 
in no way reflects that of other Leica users, right B.D.?)

Walt

Don Dory wrote:

>Walt,
>I'm not going to rise to that one.  :)  I can say that one of my friends has
>done very well repping Mapplethorpe at her Gallery, very well indeed.
>
>Don
>don.dory@gmail.com
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>
>On 3/30/06, Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:
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>
>>Well, the shadow thing sure elicited a good response, perhaps we should
>>seek controversy? Don't know if you noticed, but I like controversy. :-)
>>
>>I like flowers too, Also like trees. Have been doing a lot of back your
>>fixer uping lately and by late spring it might be a good photo location.
>>
>>Walt
>>
>>btw Mapplethorpe's work, to me, was bland as hell. Hate to sound like BD
>>and get prejudicial but had Mapplethorpe been straight and photoed T*Ts
>>instead of D**ks we'd have never heard the name.
>>
>>Don Dory wrote:
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>>>No, the one thing about flower photography is that it is pretty
>>>non-controversial.  Even Mapplethorpe didn't have any bullwhips with his
>>>flowers.  But I think after the CIA shot I am going to concsiously look
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>>for
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>>>something fairly controversial for a PAW.  It has been fascinating how
>>>people interprete the image.
>>>
>>>Don
>>>don.dory@gmail.com
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>>>
>>>On 3/30/06, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:
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>>>>No ruffled feathers here - not enough left to ruffle. :-)
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>>>>...... Original Message .......
>>>>On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:53:50 -0500 Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>"Now that is vivid....and striking
>>>>"
>>>>"walt
>>>>"
>>>>"p.s. hope no one got their "feathers ruffled", ok BD?
>>>>"
>>>>"Don Dory wrote:
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>>>>">This one is on Velvia 100, but the blossom was this vivid red.
>>>>">
>>>>">http://gallery.leica-users.org/album362/cherrysingleton
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>>>>">Don
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