[Leica] Anne Leibovitz

[lew1716 at gmail.com (Lew Schwartz)]

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-Lew Schwartz
On Jul 7, 2013 3:47 PM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote:

> And we haven't even started (again) on her partner!  ;-)
>
> Jeffery
>
>
> On Jul 7, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>
> > I think its disdainful to see this thread come up yet one more time on
> the
> > LUG.
> > Its called high concept photography its been around for years its not
> rocket
> > science and the LUG has been taking pot shots at the Jewish lesbian
> > photographer for years - at odds with the total acclaim she gets
> everywhere
> > else in the known civilized planet Earth. She is the master of high
> concept
> > magazine portrait photography and her works segues into the gallery scene
> > seamlessly. There's a number of photographers trying to do what she does
> and
> > not really pulling it off. Lots of photographers you get when you cant
> get
> > Anne Leibovitz but wish you could.
> > Somebody just said she was only appreciated by photographers. A real half
> > assed attempt at marginalizing her work. If you lived on Mars.
> > Her work is completely valued in galleries, museums by art directors and
> > collectors. By the general public reading magazines in the dentist
> office.
> > Yet the guys on the LUG have nothing but distain for her work. Big news!
> > One gal on the LUG.
> > We're shooting "se?oritas" and wondering why there's only one women on a
> > list of hundreds to a thousand thoroughly entrenched  in mindlessness
> guys.
> >
> > Amazing that to be photographed by Anne Leibovitz defines you as a
> > celebrity.
> > That was kind of also said about Avedon but not now to this hard extent.
> > As to be photographed by her makes you one.
> > As to be not be photographed by her makes you not one.
> > Stated I think with a bit of tongue in cheek but still repeatedly stated.
> > Yet there is some irony in that it has been repeatedly mentioned that for
> > good reason she is more of a renown person them most of the people she
> > photographs.  Perhaps until she photographs them.
> > Not too many people on the LUG doing high concept photography.
> > Takes some planning. Kyle's work gets there.  I'm not coming up with
> others
> > off hand. I've done a few perhaps.
> >
> > There is no controversy anywhere on planet Earth about the value of Anne
> > Leibovitz' s work and her validity as a great photographer.
> > Nowhere except the LUG.
> > Some people don't like the way she didn't pay her bills on time. Big
> deal.
> > Please show us a url of a journalist taking shots at Mz. Leibovitz's
> work. I
> > think it will be hard to find one. Her work not her balance sheets.
> > What do you guys get out of hyping how narrow minded and ignorant  you
> are?
> > Does it make you some kind of cool curmudgeon do you think in your own
> mind?
> > Photography is not a valid form of doing business now says the system
> > administrators and finance geeks. Everybody wants to play with cheap
> cameras
> > and pontificate on the Leica list about what photography is all about.
> Shoot
> > jpegs with UV filters with consumer not even prosumer cameras and take
> cheap
> > shots at photographers who actually give a crap and do the work.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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