Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Mark > I saw this picture earlier today because I was looking for something else > and ended up on the LUG gallery home page and your mug was on there among > the other galleries that came up and I saw you have four pictures up now > instead of two so I checked it out. > > And I liked it very much. > > As much as I liked it I also like hearing you talk about it (which is > seeing > you write about it but you write in your own voice so it's just like > hearing > you talk). > > Someday before I croak I'm going to start a list of the people I've known > who seem to me to be Real Artists -- not hte most accomplished I've known > perhaps nor the most famous, just undeniably the real thing, live it eat it > sleep it etc and can't do otherwise -- and though I know you only through > this venue and for a short time I suspect strongly your name will be on > there. > > Vince Thanks Vince thinking of myself or being considered by sombody to be an "artist" is not such a highfalutin stretch for me as I was an "art major" in college and that 's all I was taught and was part of my mind set the whole time. This was when the most you'd pay for a photo in a gallery was 4o bucks. The mid 70's. When I started out I didn't think of myself as a "photographer" but someone who used photography as one of many print making techniques. I was a commercial artist. But my work got more focused and less artsy fartsy and "cleaner" as all my colored backdrops got used up and I was left with White paper.. And a camera. It was much easer being Photoshop after Photoshop was invented. My adviser in college in St. Louis came out of the Chicago New Bauhaus was always quoting L?szl? Moholy-Nagy. Myron was also a member of the Repertory company which we had and was my original involvement over there I am an x theater person. It was always " Moholy says this or Moholy said that". I liked that. It influenced me. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner http://photographyhistory.blogspot.com/2008/02/from-dada-to-bauhaus-moholy-n agy.html Or http://tinyurl.com/yhqtjpz