How Photography Lost Its Virginity on the Way to the Bank:

[tim atherton]

for all the artyfarty-phobes out there...:

http://photo-muse.blogspot.com/2007/...ginity-on.html

[Walter Calahan]

This is why I've always been drawn to Duane Michals' art. There's no BS.

[Bill_1856]

This is why I've always been drawn to Duane Michals' art. There's no BS.

I've always thought that it's PURE BS.

[Vaughn]

I've always thought that it's PURE BS.

That's only because you're paying attention

Having met the man and seen his work, we could use a lot more of this type of BS!

Vaughn

[Eric Rose]

Ah come on, you mean the beard I want to grow and piano lessons I want to take plus the floppy hat won't make me a great landscape photographer!

[Vaughn]

Ah come on, you mean the beard I want to grow and piano lessons I want to take plus the floppy hat won't make me a great landscape photographer!

No...ya gotta marry the daughter of a gallery owner, too.

[Michael Graves]

Personally, I love Duane Michaels...both his work and his personality. He spoke at a college I attended a couple of decades ago and I decided two things. He was a great person and a poor influence. His work is sufficiently unique that to produce something similar could only make you look like you were trying to follow in his footsteps. The technical quality of his prints (those he had with him, anyway) was superb, but it was the image content that grabbed your eye. These two factors made for a marvelous display.

But that's the beauty of analyzing other photographers work. I hate Cindy Sherman (as apparently so does he) and some of you hate Duane Michaels. Is there ANYONE out there that we ALL love?

[MIke Sherck]

Is there ANYONE out there that we ALL love?

We all love you, Michael.

Mike

[George Kara]

Hasn't photography always been a commercial medium?

I thought this was the reason so many clickers are insecure about it being an art form.

Art in photography seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

[Greg Lockrey]

Hasn't photography always been a commercial medium?

I thought this was the reason so many clickers are insecure about it being an art form.

Art in photography seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

Spoken like a painter.


I'm getting to like you, George.