[Leica] Met Exhibition

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At 10:10 PM 9/28/2008, you wrote:
>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122229683747573089.html#project%3D%26s%3D%26articleTabs%3Darticle
>
>Cheers
>Jayanand

Lord, help me.  I really don't get it:

"Sherrie Levine After Walker Evans? was the title 
of a 1981 exhibition shown in New York at the 
newly opened Metro Pictures Gallery. On display 
was a series of famous Walker Evans photographs 
which Levine photographed directly from an 
exhibition catalogue. .....Levine?s gesture of 
reproduction lets itself be interpreted in a 
variety of ways: it represents a gesture of 
appropriation and at the same time dismisses 
every creative act. By exhibiting the 
rephotographed Evans photographs in an art 
gallery, she quotes the museum-related status of 
photography, which since the 1970s enthroned 
documentary and scientific photography as well, 
and in doing so makes this process visible. In 
the end, she also makes current the themes of 
Evans? photography (one can establish a reference 
to the effects of Reagan?s politics on the lower classes of society)."

Photography about photography?   Why not just 
show photography?  Why does everything have to be 
an "installation" or have a gimmick?

Tina


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