Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >