Re: "CALENDAR ARTIST"

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From: Jack Fulton (jefulton1@attbi.com)
Date: 09/10/02-06:40:58 AM Z


I'll agree . . and have a G&T John . . nice post.

> "If we don't identify a discrete common enemy--and quick!--we'll have to
> bomb our allies!"
> --GWB
>
> AA is a Calendar Artist--in the sense that more of the masses experience his
> work in that way. I would dare say, although I would happily be wrong, that
> Amazon.com (etc.,etc.,etc.,) sells more of his 12-months-flat editions than
> anything else bearing his mark. And (here's a more tender point) most all of
> what's lately been published under his moniker is post-mortem for someone
> else's profit. Note: The Print; The Negative; etc., and the posthumous 100
> Years.
>
> The bones are splintered for relics.
>
> I walked (stumbled, actually) into a local gallery here in Austin last
> weekend to view a colleague's work. In the back room I found magnificent
> (and pricey!) prints of Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston, Ruth Bernhard, and
> others--all of them magnificent. And my peer's work was nice, and
> formulaic, and well received. Above the Reception Desk (you know what I
> mean) hung a MASSIVE (bigger than any enlarger could fathom) print of
> Moonrise (over the fashionable receptionist). It was Too Big and Gratuitous.
>
> What's been done to AA he did not wish for or deserve. (Just like Jesus, but
> that's another list-serve)
>
> Anyway--
>
> AA set, to my mind, a new ethic of seeing things. He went to public places
> that few ever bothered to notice. He looked until he saw things in a new
> way (as Rodin suggested to Rilke). And then he stood up on top of his Woody
> Suburban and hefted his massive 8x10 view camera and (I imagine) chuckled
> when he had the notion that he might claim he saw the print before he ever
> took the picture. . . . Right.
>
> If I could only have just a smidgen of his adventurous eye and his lusty
> spirit. If I could just notice things in some novel way.
>
> Maybe it was the gin. I dunno.
>
> If, by some strange twist, I hit Send rather than Delete, I hope you will
> all forgive me.
>
> Go easy,
> John
>
>
>
>


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