I gave the 1st link three tries: no luck.
JP
At 04:17 PM 08/31/2001 +1000, you wrote:
You want art - you can't handle ART! Check out Joel-Peter Witkin.
Still alive and scary as hell! (And you thought Arbus was odd?).
AndrewF
http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/witkin/jpwdefault.html
http://www.smog.net/photographers/witkin0/
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2000/05/09/witkin/
>At 01:30 8/31/01, Gary Edwards wrote:
>
>>No argument with those, but I would add Edward Weston - marvelous sense of
>>light and composition. Peppers, nudes, landscapes. . .
>>
>>Gary Edwards
>
>And in the same breath, probably Paul Strand as well, both part of the 291
>gallery sponsored by Stieglitz . . . as part of the third list, not as
>photojournalists, but as a pair who helped break the mold from the soft
>focus secessionist movement and its attempt to immitate paintings to the
>sharp focus of reality . . . as an art form in itself and not an immitation
>of another (all purely IMHO). Adams had a great admiration for Weston;
>Stieglitz for Strand.
>
>-- John
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