I also like this from the essay: "Perhaps this is the motive at the heart of the desire to take images – the record of a constant crossing between feeling and thinking."
This, to me, speaks to not just Sieff's motive, but to photography in general which is very precise, scientific and technical in many aspects and purely artistic in others. I have a copy of Sieff's 40 Years of Photography (Taschen) and much of the joy of that book is in Sieff's memoirs and many little quotations and quips used throughout. That man could write. Very dry, self-deprecating humour; I love it. On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Bob W-PDML <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > On 29 Aug 2016, at 18:19, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Steve Cottrell <co...@seeingeye.tv> wrote: >>> On 29/8/16, Bob W-PDML, discombobulated, unleashed: >>> >>>> I wanted to write that it was Les Rencontres de Jeanloup Sieff, but >>>> couldn't find any reference to that book, so I checked my copy. It means >>>> that for almost 40 years I have conflated these two photographers in my >>>> mind. It probably explains why I found it so hard to reconcile Sieff's >>>> nudes and the early photos by Clergue, and that is one of the reasons I >>>> bought the book. >>> >>> An interesting appreciation of Sieff's work: >>> >>> <http://www2.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol8_2/v8-2-coulter.html> >> >> An excellent essay. Thanks, Cotty! >> > > This is very amusing: "so unique are these bottoms that they almost deserve > to have no arsehole”. > > And the photo at the end of Guermantes is quite brilliant. > > B > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
