Re: The Pictorial Nude and Pictorialism Generally

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From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 08/29/02-09:44:28 PM Z


On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Carl Weese wrote:

> I spent my entire adolescence, which would be the decade of the sixties,
> taking pictures in NYC nearly every minute I wasn't in school. Times Square,
> The Village, whatever. As I grew out of adolescence I realized how boring
> all that was, even though the pix were selling like hotcakes (and for about
> that much money) as stock through Black Star. Strange to take a psychology
> class as an undergrad and find the textbook illustrated with some of your
> own pictures. Hey, I got forty bucks for that! You have to move on. When I
> realized I was making good pictures, pictures that would not sell as stock,
> I knew I'd grown up, at least a little, as an artist.

To coin a phrase: de gustibus non est disputandum.

J.


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