From: Thor Bols (thorbols@hotmail.com)
Date: 11/03/00-11:22:09 AM Z
It would appear that you have placed entertainment over education. By
promoting Mapplethorpe as one of your "five", you have already sacrificed
intellectual integrity for "spunk", as you put it. Perhaps you have
understimated your audience, or perhaps you just want good reviews. In any
event, the inclusion of Mapplethorpe has already lowered the bar to the
extent that the rest of your selections will be meaningless.
>From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <tracez@mcn.net>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: Alt Photo <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
>Subject: photo history lecture
>Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:39:11 -0700
>
>Off topic, so please email me off list. I am interested in knowing, off
>the
>top of your head, the five photographers you would choose who greatly
>affected the medium, *either visually or technically*. I know it is way
>more than 5, but I am giving a lecture on what I am terming a "crash course
>in the history of photography", one or two class periods, for photo
>non-majors who will never take a photo history class probably, and who
>probably will yawn through any kind of history lecture in the first place.
>Thus I want the lecture to have spunk (that means I probably will include
>Mapplethorpe, Judy, whom you find brilliant??) I have narrowed a list, of
>whom I would choose, to 23, which is ridiculous. What is especially
>interesting to me is to view this theme from an international perspective,
>so that I am not caught in a US centered viewpoint. And also, for
>instance,
>who has been most responsible for this turn back to alt process? If you
>have just one idea, or 30, I'm game. I've got 4 or 5 already from a friend,
>but won't mention them to sway your opinion.
>Chris
>
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