From: Steve Shapiro (sgshiya@redshift.com)
Date: 09/11/02-03:16:23 AM Z
I agree with John and say, I always thought it was an achievement to have my
prints reproduced on a calendar.
S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Fulton" <jefulton1@attbi.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: "CALENDAR ARTIST"
> 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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