From: Kate Mahoney (kateb@paradise.net.nz)
Date: 09/19/03-02:09:05 PM Z
I heartily agree with this, Judy. I've been looking at Witkin as part of my
study and although I don't like his images all the time, he has definitely
got something that others havent - some photographers that work in a similar
vein just shock, they lack that extra touch of "wow"that his best work
has....
Kate
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 6:39 AM
Subject: PS About Witkin Re: Diane Arbus
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 ARTHURWG@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > I can't really see how Diane's name could possibly be mentioned along
> > > with Witkin, who is, IMHO, a complete psychopath and a prime candidate
> > > for expulsion from Plato's Republic. .
>
> IMO Witkin is a genius, something of an evil genius perhaps, but still a
> genius. I'd hazard also that the diagnosis "complete psychopath" for
> someone who lives within civilized law and only makes naughty *pictures*
> would not be corroborated in the DSM 3 (or maybe it's 4 by now). After
> all, if we go out on the streets with our eyes open we can see a good deal
> of what Arbus showed us, delicious as it is... Witkin comes up with
> amazing/stunning inventions from his own imagination.
>
> Not to mention that his printing and composition methods make his work on
> topic for "alt."
>
> As for Plato's Republic and expulsion therefrom -- I'd put up politicians
> who tell the public sinister lies and various other home grown evil-doers
> first for that ignominy, wouldn't you? Someone who simply invents his own
> shadows in ways we've never thought of actually enhances that cave, which
> could otherwise get to be quite a bore...
>
> J.
>
>
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