Emily, The problem was that you got to see exactly what you expected and no more. AZ LOOKAROUND - Since 1978 Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! The Lookaround E-Book FREE COPY http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SPAM] Re: PF members exhibit on 12-05-09 > From: "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun, December 06, 2009 10:22 am > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > At 8:08 AM -0700 12/6/09, lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I am uneasy with photographers like Yousuf Karsh > >who strive for a personal statement. > Last year I went to a show of Karsh's work. Much > of it was iconic images which I grew up with. > Each image was a success by itself, but in the > aggregate the show was not very interesting. > I never figured out whether that was because > there was nothing new to me there, or because > Karsh brought his own style so strongly to bear > upon the different subjects that it overrode the > varieties of their personalities, or because > Karsh's way of doing things had become a period > piece - a cliché to the knowledgable viewer, or > because I'm really not much interested in > portraiture. > I came away with a sense of being oppressed by > the heavy hand of the 1950s, the veneration of > the Western European cultural approach. There > was a strong feeling of Beethoven about the > entire show - no corner of Mozart's scatological > humor, no spritz of the tinkle of Rameau and > Couperin, certainly not a drop of an Indian rag > or pentatonic twang from China. > It was interesting to try to discern just what the problem was. > -- > Emily L. Ferguson > mailto:elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 508-563-6822 > New England landscapes, wooden boats and races > http://www.landsedgephoto.com > http://e-and-s.instaproofs.com/
