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

[Paul Viapiano]

No saint...the spirit and tone of the comments were mean and beyond 
criticism.


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


>
>
> 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.
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