From: Pam Niedermayer (pam@pinehill.com)
Date: 10/11/03-10:20:30 AM Z
How do you compare Weston's photographs of Cole?
Pam
Galina wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> it has been a while since I participated in a debate here, but Sally
> Mann is an interesting subject...
>
> I have personally tried to understand how it all works: why some work
> obviously looks like prostitution (Sally Mann) while some other is a
> serious and respectable piece of art (Diane Arbus, Witkin).
>
> If I could find the right words for the definition of the differences,
> it could be a guide for all of us. But sometimes it is nearly
> impossible to formulate the differences, therefore there is so much
> discussion about it.
>
> Even though I can not explain exactly why, but I am sure that Sally
> Mannīs work is the worst kind of prostitution, especially because she
> is not selling her own body like Cindy Sherman, but bodies of her own
> and other helpless children and other victims. That is why her other
> work that is not based on selling the bodies is not awakening any
> interest at all.
>
> The even worse consequence of this kind of prostitution is the fact
> that it is so inspiring for the thieves, who make it a hundred times
> more dangerous through plagiarism. Here in Norway there is an artist
> copying Sally Mannīs work and exploiting her children just in the same
> hopeless manner. I have seen a few examples of her work that make me
> really upset. The worst thing is that this norwegian artist thinks
> probably that she is unique and is not even aware of her plagiarism...
> But their purposes are the same - to get attention... which they both
> achieved.
> ...
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