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Subject: [Leica] kelly's day in geneva photo essay
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Fri Apr 7 11:38:04 2006
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 From time to time I hit the shelves at Barnes and Noble or Borders. I 
would sooner stick one of my body parts in an electric socket than pick 
up Eggleston's or Anne Geddes' books. My aversion may be pathological 
and could be I need some of B.D.'s pills?  Holy Haysus though, I could 
photograph them both being burned at the stake.

I'd rather join Dante and be hyperventilating in hell than be forces to 
see one more  Weirmeraner in a coat and tie.

Matt Powell wrote:

>Eggleston is most successful when his subjects are alive - people or
>even animals (the dog lapping at a pool of muddy water in William
>Eggleston's Guide). I don't know if he has a disarming presence or if
>something else is in play, but his living photographs have a way of
>transporting you into the warm, humid southern world he's
>photographing. There's not a level of artifice built-in like there is
>with the numerous people who've followed him.
>
>His, uh, still-life work (all the interior shots, the tricycle, etc.)
>are less interesting than similar photographs by people like Stephen
>Shore. Maybe I just don't see the method in that particular madness.
>
>--
>MP
>wooderson@gmail.com
>
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