Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/06

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Subject: [Leica] Anne Leibovitz
From: lew1716 at gmail.com (Lew Schwartz)
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 23:54:00 -0400
References: <CAH1UNJ1ic9H4OudWsdiCg_3HgyHAWxkR4qU5b7UJU+eD1SwzVQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAFuU78ehMjjrPdzdmp6pcWOBHRnhQo1P8+yEZa3W7wqCbxvTEQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAH1UNJ1YVhrp=-T3wtNTE3Kxq2tjLnsqKTOVG5Zwkj8o4SoH6A@mail.gmail.com>

I don't deny it at all. I am somewhat miffed that here in the US
money+popularity = authority.

-Lew Schwartz


On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> I am with you, I don't much like her current brand of photography. Seems
> like a soft core Rankin (a photographer whose works I detest), but you
> cannot deny her pop star status amongst current working photographers. My
> guess is she is doing all this purely for the money, I remember reading
> that she got bankrupted by a structured financial deal gone wrong
> (surprise, surprise), if that is so, one can hardly blame her. I thought
> the article was interesting enough though.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > She may have been a great photographer years ago, but I find her ideas
> now
> > to be disturbing. She uses the camera to create images of pure fantasy
> and
> > totally discounts the use of photography to connect to and document
> > reality. When JM Cameron used her friends to give form to powerful
> > religious and literary ideas (a practice she abandoned) she aimed
> > didactically at important social and spiritual issues. Leibovitz' ability
> > to turn any of us into a Disney character is just frightening and
> > pretentious:
> >
> > "Those of us who are photographers, the difference between us and
> everyone
> > else is that we take what we do very seriously."
> >
> > Ugh! OTOH, she cites (and misunderstands) a nice New Republic piece by
> Jed
> > Perl. He makes a few really intelligent digs at the newly reconfigured
> > Aperture:
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112390/aperture-magazine-relaunched-art-photography-digital-age#
> >
> > -Lew Schwartz
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
> > gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.fastcocreate.com/1683295/annie-leibovitz-on-getting-the-shot-and-the-future-of-photography#1
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Jayanand
> > >
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