From: Kate Mahoney (kateb@paradise.net.nz)
Date: 09/22/03-02:33:51 PM Z
Well I DID say it was shallow :) And i do know the difference of course or i
wouldn't be studying his aesthetic.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 4:13 AM
Subject: Re: About Witkin
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> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 kateb@paradise.net.nz wrote:
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> > ...Another aspect I think interesting is that the normal reaction to
> > difference is to stare, and the normal social inhibition is NOT to
stare.
> > Witkin gives a chance to really look at difference without causing
offence.
> > This may sounds shallow but I think is at least a little valid.
> >
> >
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>
> But many of Witkin's most compelling images are pure invention -- nothing
> you'd find in "real life" to stare at. He may use corpses, but often in
> ways that could be something else, and other things he has entirely
> invented. That's not to deny that the straight frontal photograph of a
> "freak" has its own power... as witness the ghastly terrible heartbreaking
> photograph this year in the newspaper -- of twins cojoined at the head.
> The power/horror of that image was about as strong as any I've seen,
> grainy & flat as it was. But it wasn't "art."
>
> Judy
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