Hi Judy:
I did not get the sneer or even the condescension.
What I did get was that he was being used. The
reporter and editors put stories in the paper like
this for one reason: human interest. Human interest
stories focus on the stories that its readership will
find interesting: the zany and cute. This story was
written so people on the Upper West Side, like me,
will get to focus on an odd man (by our standard) and
have some thing more important to talk about than Mel
Gibson or Brad Pitt.
Their readership is not interested in art, or most of
it is not. So if they find a story like this, they
publish it. I recall, His Girl Friday. Carry Grant,
playing a newspaper editor needs to redo the front
page. He pulls off stories about Hitler and mass death
and puts them on back pages. At one point, he says,
"No no keep the rooster story, that's human interest".
--- Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Robert Newcomb wrote:
>
> > This is an interesting photog related article from
> the NY Times about wet
> > plate photographer John Coffer and how he lives in
> the 1860s style today.
> >
>
> I read that today, and thought it a particularly
> ignorant "interview"
> bordering on nasty -- which may be more likely when
> you send
> non-photographers to do an interview with someone
> whose work is beyond
> their ken. What Wadler dwelt on was the guy's
> "woman" problem. She never
> had an inkling (or care) that he resurrected a
> technology that was
> essentially dead (for instance).. She wants to know
> how often he takes a
> bath and washes his sheets. Her sneer and
> condescension were palpable.
>
> I suppose coverage in the Times won't hurt Coffer,
> but he's been better
> places (like Post-Factory !). In any event the piece
> does the Times no
> credit and shame on the "reporter."
>
> Judy
>
>
> >
> >
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/garden/03tintype.html?ei=5070&en=1146e6403263ac54&ex=1155268800&adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1154635285-GSaFhQV/8XSzTMOjwe9FFQ
> >
> > Robert N
> >>
> >
>
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