[alt-photo] Re: how to be wrong GLOBALLY !

[Christina Anderson]

Judy,

I hear ya.  I can safely say that most of my photo friends I have found via this list. I don't know how many times now, when I have my students do a PowerPoint on a photographer in my alt class, they present on a listee and I just laugh.  So y'all are famous to my students anyway. And that from the Internet.

I also credit Malin Fabbri's alternativephotography.com for a lot of spreading the alt "gospel." It's sort of a one-stop-shop.

Chris




> Speaking of false prophets of the modern age, Chris... I'll see you and raise you on the sneers about digital...
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> Somewhere in our house (put away so carefully I'll never find it until I stumble over it looking for something else) I have a book that was a best seller some 15 or 20 years ago:  "Silicon Snake Oil" by Eric Stoll.  It's an "expose'" of the Internet in general, and how it isolates people, sitting alone with their keyboards, without human connection or live friendships.  At the end of the book he throws it all out, pulls all the plugs... and heads back to the *human* world.
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> I think of this "wisdom" again & again and again, every time some new/old friend from "the list" drops by, every time there's mention of meet-ups and tutorials and conferences of listers, and the continuing expansion of other activities -- feuds, fun, romance (oh let it be !!), classes, projects, conferences, shows, and in more ways than we can count, ongoing myriad "list" friendships... Surely, if we bumped into someone from "the list" in, say, a Florida photo gallery -- we'd feel instant connection (even if it was, um, not even a gum printer !!!)...
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> As someone we all know & admire would put it...
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> heh heh heh heh heh....
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> PS. Speaking of "blabbing secrets," Chris -- I doubt that a *real* artist would depend on a "secret process."  In fact, wouldn't it show how superior they really are if other folks do it and it's NOT so special (like how many x, y & z prints are really a great big bore ?)
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> Judy
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