From: Baird, Darryl (dbaird@umflint.edu)
Date: 10/19/01-09:25:03 PM Z
Shannon,
You need to get out of the University and into your town.
Houston has a LOT to offer in photography. Beyond Uof H there is Rice
(ok, another University but with perhaps a different mind set), The
Museum of Art with Anne Tucker (one of the premier American critics,
curators, mover&shakers), the Contemporary Museum and their school,
Jean Caslin at Houston Center for Photography, Diane Barber at Diverse
Works Art Space, and (of course) FotoFest coming in March. Whew!, get
out of the darkroom and get involved. There is a lot of "art"
happening within a few miles of your fixer bath. Also, Ann Stautberg
teaches at UofH in Clearwater...she and her artist husband, Francis X.
Tolbert are definitely NOT academic types. Just curious, in your
review of the faculty, are you including S. Bloom?
FWIW, I'll be in Houston for FotoFest, I'd be glad to hook up with you
for a chat. I love to meet folks on the list.
-Darryl
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> From: shannon stoney
> Reply To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:02 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: dogs getting run over in texas
>
> Bill, your description of the academic art scene as inbred and
> insular strikes me as exactly on the mark, although I am sort of an
> outsider observer of it really and am only beginning to understand
> it. But I also look at photography outside of the academic scene,
> and I find that what is considered "good" in the wide world is often
>
> very different from what academic types like. One difference for
> example is that the prints that are shown and sold in galleries are
> very well crafted, and are often very pleasurable to look at,
> beautiful as well as thought-provoking, but frequently "merely"
> beautiful; whereas academic work around here is almost always some
> sort of critique of the media or pop culture that doesnt' go much
> beyond appropriating imagery from pop culture, and it is often not
> very well crafted.
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