Digital BW, The Print

Could have fooled me; your English is perfect.  So that means I've learned a
Danish word?  Hurrah.

On 7/27/07, Peter Oksen <oksen@...> wrote:
>
> Sorry, meant dove or pigeon. Non-native writing in English...
> Peter
>
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> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sandy
> Schaffell
> 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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