[Leica] Anne Leibovitz

[lew1716 at gmail.com (Lew Schwartz)]

That's exactly what she did. The most important thing is ca$h.

-Lew Schwartz
On Jul 7, 2013 2:20 PM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> Didn't she give up all future rights to her photographs as a part of her
> financial settlement problems?  Maybe she just doesn't care anymore.
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > So she is doing what painters have been doing for hundreds of years,
> and
> > > that's bad? Since when did photography have to be realistic? I thought
> we
> > > had shed those shackles years ago.
> >
> >
> > It's not a question of her being good or bad or whether or not we were
> ever
> > shackled (Were we?). If you follow the widely acknowledged distinction
> > between photograph and illustration made everywhere else in the media,
> > she'd be an illustrator, not a photographer. I don't think photography is
> > even essential to the images used to illustrate the article Jayanand
> > posted. A commercial artist with an airbrush and Illustrator could have
> > produced those without touching a camera. Using a camera this way has the
> > appeal of a tour de force, whoever would have thought you could/would do
> > that with a camera?  ..... so the work becomes valued as a performance:
> We
> > admire it for the skill, effort and social engineering behind its
> > production as opposed to its end result. Side by side with an artist's
> > illustration, however, there's nothing special, imo.
> >
> >
> > -Lew Schwartz
> >
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