Digital BW, The Print

Sorry, meant dove or pigeon. Non-native writing in English...
Peter

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Sent: 27. juli 2007 22:11
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Good books on photography (OT)

Peter, this new question is even more difficult than your first one. Both
are in the strictest sense unanswerable.  But there is an awful lot of
skating around trying to come up with an answer by a lot of us photographers
who wonder why our images never make the galleries or museums or wherever we
believe it's important that they make an appearance.  I went to see an
exhibit by the Japanese artist Sugimoto in San Francisco and some viewers
were asking the very questions you asked.  Sugimoto offers detailed reasons
why he does what he does.  And those reasons strike a chord with the folks
who make decisions at the museums and the galleries and also impress private
collectors.  So that's one path that we could choose to take, or not.   PS
what is a dow? is that a cow?  Cheers.

On 7/27/07, Peter Oksen <oksen@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot to all for the answers to this admittedly impossible
> question.
> As said I don't expect to get an answer, but am merely looking for sources
> to better understand what makes a photo tick. I enjoyed a lot the Wessel
> video – thanks – and like his photos. Many are quite Cartier-Bresson like
> and dependent on this magical moment which exactly produces this WOW
> effect
> f.ex. the Santa Barbara 1977 photo of the man watching the dows fly –
> fantastic. And then again there is a good example of what I don't
> understand. Have a look at Wessel's gallery site – HYPERLINK
> "http://renabranstengallery.com/wessel.html"
> http://renabranstengallery.com/w
> essel.html  - there's a photo in the Las Vegas serie of the parking lot or
> road called Las Vegas no.3 from 2000 (top right). Could someone please
> explain to me why this deserves a place there? Actually most of the Las
> Vegas serie are the kind of photos that I sometimes also shoot, but would
> most likely discard as being un-interesting or even boring. Please
> understand I am not flogging Wessel here – I am merely trying to
> understand
> something that really puzzles me.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
>

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