Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My favorite comment on the topic of serious art comes from Bette Midler: "I am now an artiste. That means I don't have to take my clothes off for the show." On Aug 10, 2014 4:15 PM, "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > I like the concluding paragraph a lot: > > "Something we've been missing also becomes evident here. The whole world is > now filled with incredible images--especially on Instagram and other social > networks--that owe something to Winogrand's, documenting life, change, and > all the rest. Yet the art world and museums are not. Instead they tend to > show oversize, very still pictures or images that investigate formal > properties and ideas of display and presentation. I love many of those > pictures, but what's happening online on social media deserves far more > serious scrutiny than it's getting. If the art world doesn't admit more of > this sort of deceptively casual-seeming work, the outside world will reject > more so-called art photography than it already does. That's a divide that > we don't need to reestablish and widen." > > The Art Photography circa 2014 leave me cold. > > > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > http://www.vulture.com/2014/08/art-review-garry-winogrand-retrospective.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >