It's worth mentioning that this exhibit is moving to the Detroit Institute of Arts in October - the 18th I think.
http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.5079531/k.9571/Avedon_Fashion.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/arts/design/15aved.html?_r=1 Concurrently, the DIA has a collection of their own works depicting the first 100 years of photography 1840-1940. Some really iconic images there. A worthwhile double-header if you are in the neighborhood. http://www.dia.org/ Bill Sawyer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of paul stenquist Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:15 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Back in beantown! ...and a further NYC report (long) Nice work. You're an excellent ambassador for the PDML. Paul On Sep 17, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > I just got back to Boston after my trip to NYC for the Pentax K-X > intro. It was a cold and wet ride, but not *extremely* cold or wet. I > think Triumph misnamed the Sprint because that bike's definitely a > marathon runner (though a very, very fast one)! Best motorcycle ever, > IMHO :-) > > The intro was held at the International Center of Photography on 6th > Ave at 43rd street and it's definitely worth a visit if you get the > chance. Their current exhibit is on the work of Richard Avedon, who is > not one of my favorite photographers - but that's probably all the > more reason to have a look at his work, I thought to myself. I was > quite surprised at how much of it I liked. The thing is, it was all > his really *early* stuff that really seemed good to me. The exhibit > had the photographs grouped by time periods and the later the year the > less I liked his work. He seemed to have figured out what sold, at one > point, and then stopped experimenting and growing. In his later work > he seemed to be imitating his own "Richard Avedon style" (though very > well!) I once read an article that suggested that Liza Minelli has, in > effect, become a Liza Minelli impersonator; I think Richard Avedon > became a sort of photographic equivalent of that. > > All the prints looked fabulous, by the way, but particularly the > earlier ones, to my eye. I doubt Avedon was a darkroom kind of guy so > I wondered who did his printing. Whoever it was did a superb job. -- 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.
