OK with me. Bill Sawyer
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of paul stenquist Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 8:47 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Was: Back in beantown! ...and a further NYC report (long) Sounds like an opportunity for a Detroit PDML day. Paul On Sep 19, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Bill Sawyer wrote: > 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. -- 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. -- 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.
