On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Doug Brewer <[email protected]> wrote :(regarding Eggleston)
> I'm pretty sure Christine had a little epiphany about it too, but I'll leave > that up to her. Even Mark Roberts allowed, a touch grudgingly, that there > might have been a couple of good photos in there. > I really thought one (Eggleston) was excellent and two others were very likeable. So I didn't totally dislike his exhbited work, though those three represent probably 5% of what was displayed. He just, IMO, seemed a charlatan. Maybe Picasso was too, based on some elementary school art exhibits I saw hanging in the local mall today. It seems to me a question of: 1. Do I like it because it was REALLY a good photograph? or 2. Do I like it because it brings back fond memories for me, despite it being a CRAPPY photograph? If #1, then it was probably a really good photograph. If #2, then it's because I'm in love with my own memories (nothing wrong with that) and my emotional response to the image has little to do with it's artisitic merit. Tom C. -- 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.
