Ah, right. So we agree with other. Good. > Sorry, I didn't express myself well. In my mind I was thinking about > Annie Leibovitz. The comparison in the doco was between these > photographs taken at crime scenes in the early part of last > century and > the Pictorialists. The photography curator made the point that while
> Pictorialism tried to raise the medium of photography to an > artform, in > doing so, their range of style and subject matter became narrower and > narrower. Ultimately it was an artistic dead end. > > Whereas, the artless forensic photographers, who were all anonymous, > produced a body of work that is a fascinating insight into > the world of > the lower to middle classes in NY. Unusual angles, stark > lighting, wide > wide lenses - the photographs were amazing, putting aside the gory > nature of the subject. > > Lartigue also makes a significant appearance in this episode. The > ultimate amateur, his famous racing car shot was compared to a rare > Pictorialist photo that included..gasp... an automobile. Where > Lartigue's shot was and is modern and exciting, the latter seemed > already old-fashioned, even when it was new. > > So while I respect what the Pictorialists were trying to do, > verite (the > asterisks came from me trying to add an accent) photography > is so much > more rewarding. > > "Darstardly" was me being ironic. I love the series. > > D -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
