Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For anyone who's interested, the Patti Smith memoir of the 70s in New York and her life with Robert Maplethorp, "Just Kids," is fascinating in terms of this subject, and many others. It's quite touching, and is very revealing about Maplethorp's compulsion to become 'famous,' and how he set about doing it. Typed with big fingers on tiny keys -----Original Message----- From: "wildlightphoto at earthlink.net" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> Sender: lug-bounces+bd=bdcolenphoto.com at leica-users.org Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:36:56 To: <lug at leica-users.org> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] Portraits of awkward adolescents posing ... Chris Crawford wrote: >>> I have that book, and it is interesting. If you don't have it, you should get hold of it. The book is fascinating, but also somewhat demoralizing because the author reveals that most of the art that becomes famous today is really just a big fraud. Some of the artists themselves admit it in the book. <<< I'm getting the impression that the real artwork is in convincing buyers that the object is Important. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com ? What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information