Aperture Magazine just set me an e-mail

[Darin Boville]

And it had this video link:

http://www.aperture.org/exposures/?p=7790

You can by prints from Aperture here:

http://www.aperture.org/prints/crosh...sition&dir=asc

Comments on the work, on Aperture, or upon the state of photography?

--Darin

[benrains]

Haha. Oh man.

But... you don't understand... "it's art".

[Richard Rankin]

Wow, I just don't know what to say about that. It's like an exercise in getting the enlarger exposure correct...
Richard

[Eric Rose]

different strokes for different folks. in her world she seems well regarded and we would not be. the reverse also seems to be true given the comments.

[Nathan Potter]

Makes me regret going into engineering instead of fine arts where I could understand all this sort of wordsmithing.

Richard, you've got it! But I can usually nail the enlarger exposure in about 3 tries - I don't need 15 like Zoe!

Well I'm being sarcastic; but see what you can peddle with a name. This type of work is principally for collectors - or more properly wannabe collectors.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

[Richard Rankin]

Well, in all fairness, for years I thought Warhol was a joke - until I went to MOMA and saw his stuff in person. One look at those *&^@%%^ Campbell's soup cans, and I've been a fan ever since.
Richard

[Merg Ross]

I recall the birth of Aperture in San Francisco, early in the1950's. It was the brainchild of Minor White, Dody Warren, Ansel Adams, Nancy Newhall, and a few other luminaries. Early patrons supporting the venture included, Edwin Land, Elliot Porter and US Camera. Minor was the editor, and continued in that capacity when he left San Francisco for Rochester. It was a quarterly, $4.50 a year, measuring 6x9 inches, and packed with good photography and stimulating articles. In fact, Ansel contributed a wonderful essay (vol. #3, 1952) entitled, "The Profession of Photography".

However, the original concept of the magazine by these enlightened founders died many years ago. The only thing that seems to have survived is the name, Aperture.

[Richard M. Coda]

Another gimmick...

I used to anxiously await my Aperture magazine. I stopped getting it maybe 10 years ago... they strayed too far from the path.

[Brian C. Miller]

I'm glad that I have a camera and I know how to use it.

[Frank Petronio]

Aperture / Asshole kind of mean the same thing.