Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > While I'm not what I'd call a 'fan' of Annie Leibovitz' genre of > photographic work, I find this dis'sing of her work and production > methods rather distasteful, smacking of envy. When y'all are as > successful as she is, I'll be happy to learn how you made your great > photographs. I feel I have a lot to learn from her control of > lighting and the way she elicits the expressions, etc, from her > subjects. I'm no big fan of the more heavily stylized work she's > done, but remember that she's the shooter in those cases, not the art > director. > > There is an excellent documentary available on Annie Leibovitz (named > the same) made in 1993 which covers her life and efforts up to that > time. If perhaps you saw something like that, and read her book "A > Photographers Life, 1990-2005", you would see more of whatever it is > you like or at least understand her work better. > > Godfrey > > >
Hi Godfrey, I can only speak for myself, but I really don't think I am envious. Her photography, with one exception*, leaves me cold. She has a high concept, but in the effort to smooth every wrinkle out of the execution, for me wrings all life out of the result. And I have read through A Photographer's Life. A well meaning friend gave to me as a gift. I alluded to this in a previous post. When the high artiface of her commerical work is removed, it reveals...well nothing much. Her Sontag photos, aside from the appalling lapse of taste that allowed her to publish them which Sontag, were she alive, would have forbidden, leave me with no insight other than shock value. Again, I wouldn't lecture you, Godfrey, these opinions are my own, but I am not alone in this feeling. http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2006/11/18/leibovitz/ D * that exception - of course the John and Yoko shot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
