Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/14

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Subject: [Leica] Art
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:58:23 -0500
References: <CA+yJO1DaR-12taZ-8RqwAVYQ5a1paUWb6yR_WiLFsgp-h3RonA@mail.gmail.com> <CCC98B7D.2070D%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

That's what I thought, too!

Tina

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Chris Crawford <
chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:

> Documentation has been one of the main uses of art for at least 2000
> years, so I don't understand his point.
>
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> On 11/14/12 5:31 PM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote:
>
> >PESO:
> >
> >This is a letter from the New York TImes Book Review.  Do you agree that
> >you can create art only when it's your intention to do so?
> >
> >To the Editor:
> >
> >I read with interest Deborah Solomon?s
> >review<
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/books/review/short-nights-of-the-
> >shadow-catcher-by-timothy-egan.html>
> >of
> >?Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal
> >Photographs
> >of Edward Curtis,? by Timothy Egan (Oct. 28). Solomon is a talented
> >biographer ? I thoroughly enjoyed ?Utopia Parkway? ? but she completely
> >missed the point of Curtis?s life when she referred to him as a great
> >artist. Though galleries try to promote Curtis?s work as art, it?s really
> >more ethnographic photography. While Curtis obviously had a strong
> >aesthetic sensibility, the intention behind his work was documentation of
> >a
> >vanishing race. You can create art only when it?s your intention to do so.
> >
> >RICHARD POLSKY
> >Sausalito, Calif.
> >*The writer is the author of ?The Art Prophets: The Artists, Dealers, and
> >Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World.?*
> >
> >Tina
> >
> >-
> >Tina Manley, ASMP
> >www.tinamanley.com
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