[alt-photo] Re: Paractitioners from WWII thru the 1970's

[Judy Seigel]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Christina Anderson wrote:
>>>> You know, a while ago there  was an article in one of the photo mags in
>>>> which
>>>> David Vestal reamed  Irving Penn re: his work and implied that they guy
>>>> knew
>>>> nothing about  photography. It was deplorable, and just proved to me that
>>>> Vestal had an  axe to grind, but both men's work speaks for  itself.
>>>>
>>>> Paul

Is Irving Penn some kind of saint, that to disparage him is sin?  Odds are 
anyway we learn more from the crit than we do from same old same old... 
But I don't recall having read photo crit (or anything else) from Penn, so 
his opinions are moot. I have however read a lot of Vestal and find him 
thoughtful and provocative. (Not to mention that if we never grind our 
axes, they get too blunt for damn all... )

J.