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Subject: [Leica] FW: Friedlander & Madonna: Switcheroo..
From: leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:38:02 -0500
References: <9297DB8B-1092-43F2-9C01-9658DDA34B3D@mac.com> <C620BC59.4DA05%mark@rabinergroup.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20090504102749.02ac7480@pop.med.cornell.edu>

Umm,

clearly not lee's best work or madonna's best look.
i love looking at photog's "not best work", helps me to understand where
they came from and how they think.

Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157
www.leowesson.com


On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Chris Saganich <chs2018 at 
med.cornell.edu>wrote:

> Here is a link to more shots from that session:
>
> http://www.madonnashots.net/0-78-friedlander2.html
>
>
> At 02:48 PM 5/1/2009, you wrote:
>
>> I think when God needs advice on Art he calls Lee Friedlander. Or text's
>> him.
>> I don't argue with any of these guys.
>> Lee, God or Art.
>>
>> I think as she's not being glamorized at all its very straight it might be
>> easy to think its pornography. I don't think it is.
>> I get a faint air of integrity from it.
>> Nothings being done with mirrors. No shell game. No Ponzi scheme.
>>
>> - beats the crap out of most the nudes I've shot over the years.
>> Which were too glitzy and glamorized.
>>
>> Which may be why he got three more Guggenheim's than I ever got.
>> Lee three
>> Rabs zero
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Friedlander
>> This thing says he switched from Leica's to Hasselblad Superwide.
>> No mention of digital.
>>
>>
>> "In 2005, the Museum of Modern Art displayed a major retrospective of
>> Friedlander works. In the same year he received a 2005 Hasselblad
>> International Award. His work was displayed again by the San Francisco
>> Museum of Modern Art as a retrospective in 2008.[2] Concurrent to this
>> retrospective, a more contemporary body of his work, America By Car, was
>> displayed at the Fraenkel Gallery not far from the museum.[3]"
>>
>> This guys on a roll. And its not made by Sandisk.
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark William Rabiner
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
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In reply to: Message from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] FW: Friedlander & Madonna: Switcheroo..)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] FW: Friedlander & Madonna: Switcheroo..)
Message from chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich) ([Leica] FW: Friedlander & Madonna: Switcheroo..)