Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]An interestingly penetrating reflection within the essay; "His low-tech presentation seems to empathize with artists whose darkroom craft is becoming obsolete. The slow clicking of the 35- millimeter slides through the projector (rather than in PowerPoint) adds another complicated emotional layer. The technology of photography is in some cases as nostalgia-provoking as any photograph." s.d. On Sep 28, 2008, at 7:25 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > 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 > > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information