[Leica] Some New Pix Info

[leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)]

Carl,

Do I remember you from the old AOL Fine Art Photo Forum?


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Leo Wesson
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On Jan 17, 2008 5:43 PM, Carl Socolow <socphoto@verizon.net> wrote:

> Phil,
>
> It is indeed Mata Ortiz in Chihuahua, Mexico. As you state it is a
> village that has developed an international reputation for its
> resurrection and contemporary interpretation of a pottery tradition that
> had died out about 900 years ago. My wife and I had visited there in
> 2003 to buy some pottery. At that time I learned that the Mexican
> government was going to pave the 20-mile dirt road to the village as an
> economic engine for the region. I had been looking for a personal
> project and decided to photograph the village as a culture in the
> process of historical transformation as a result of its place in art
> history. The paving of the road was completed about three years ago.
> There have been others who have photographed the potters and pottery so
> I decided to approach my project with the intent of photographing daily
> life in the village at a given moment in time and not the potters per
> se. I've spent about the last five years going there every two to three
> months (from Pennsylvania) for a week or two or three. People have been
> very open and accepting. According to friends of mine who are pottery
> dealers there has been a significant change in the standard of living in
> the past 25 years as a result of the prosperity resulting from their
> art.  Thanks for looking. Also, for what it's worth, I've been doing the
> project using all black & white film capture. I decided I want an analog
> legacy, that there is a historical significance to what I'm doing and
> that I want  the pictures to outlast the limitations of the technology
> du jour.
>
> Carl
>
> Phil Swango wrote:
>
> Message: 11 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:58:59 -0700 From: "Phil Swango"
> <pswango@att.net> Subject: [Leica] Some new pix To: LUG
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Jan 16, 2008, at 11:53
> PM, Carl Socolow wrote:
>
> > > I've been slowly processing, scanning and working up some pictures
> > > done
> > > this past year from my ongoing project in Mexico.
> >
>
> Nice work, Carl.  From the titles it appears to be Mata Ortiz.  One of my
> former folklore professors did some fieldwork down there among the
> pottery-makers.  Mata Ortiz ceramics are widely sold here in Albuquerque
> too.  Could you tell us more about your project.  FWIW, the people in your
> photos look to be more prosperous than they were 20 years ago.
>
> -- Phil Swango 307 Aliso Dr SE Albuquerque, NM 87108 505-262-4085
>
>
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