[...] > > http://tmp.acp.org.au/current/index.php#the_lake > [...]
The City of the Immortals stuff looks pretty interesting. > > Interesting chat ensued. One issue raised by the curator - he > notices within the ACP audience, the general public are quite > willing to suspend their belief and enjoy this genre of > photos for what they are, artworks. > But amongst the more photo-focused crowd, he notices a > distinct hostility to the constructed image. The ACP's > documentary photographic exhibitions tend to get a much more > receptive response. It's largely a matter of understanding the difference. There's no reason why photography shouldn't be an art medium like oil paint, papier mache or elephant dung. There's nothing sacred about it. > > Me, I quite enjoy the constructed photograph, to a point. The > Gregory Crewdson hyperbole do little for me. But to the other > extreme, I get quite bored with photos that perpetuate the > premise that the photographer is just an unbiased conduit of > reality. Wankel Adams photos, I call them. > > But naturally, I will be at the talk next month for the > °SOUTH: WAR floortalk. Man, Tim Page will be there. > > http://tmp.acp.org.au/future/ > I went to a talk by Tim Page a few years ago, full of high hopes and expectations, but it was a dull evening. He's frankly not a very good photographer. His story is interesting, but it was a disappointing evening. A much more interesting and better photographer from that period was Philip Jones Griffiths, whom I saw at about the same time I saw Tim Page. Unfortunately you've missed your chance to hear him. Page and Griffiths have a number of pictures of the same scene - they were obviously standing next to each other when they took the same picture. It's very interesting to compare them. A prime example is http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox_VPage&VBID=2K1HZSA8V3 IW&IT=ZoomImage01_VForm&IID=2S5RYDI76K0W&PN=33&CT=Search http://tinyurl.com/n6bp24 Also http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox_VPage&VBID=2K1HZSA8V3 IW&IT=ZoomImage01_VForm&IID=2K7O3RJX3BTU&PN=44&CT=Search http://tinyurl.com/nbpfn6 Tim Page's versions are both in his book 'Nam. Have a look when you get the chance. Bob -- 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.
