Nan Goldin's M6

[Chuck Albertson]

I was flipping through the NY Times' Style supplement in the coffee shop this morning, looking for *something* that would catch my interest (I did slow down for the Natalie Portman spread), and finally ran across this gem on the very last page:

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2007/12/02/style/t/index.html#totalPages=2&pagewanted=0&pageName=02camera&

 

[Pablito]

Thanks for the pointer!

 

[sepiareverb]

That's because Geniuses use M7's Erik 😉

 

[mr_phillip]

Nice little piece. I think, if it came down to a broken wrist or a broken Leica, my instinct might be to save the camera too. Do we need help?

 

[Chris101]

I'm just hoping to get into a taxi where the previous occupant has left their Leica!

 

[sepiareverb]

I'm just hoping to get into a taxi where the previous occupant has left their Leica!

I've been in a lot of taxis and found more than a few things left behind, they tend to be of the stomach turning variety😱

 

[David Goldfarb]

Nice little piece. I think, if it came down to a broken wrist or a broken Leica, my instinct might be to save the camera too. Do we need help?

Hmmm..., I've broken my wrist, about 7 or 8 years ago, in a bicycle accident. Total costs (ambulance, emergency room services, radiology, top hand surgeon at a Manhattan hospital, and physical therapy), if I didn't have insurance would have been comparable to a new M7 and a nice lens. I have most of the mobility back in my wrist, but it's not quite as strong as it was before the accident.

 

[sepiareverb]

Yep, a wrist is a bad break. I chipped an elbow in high school, even that is returning at my age. A wrist I can't imagine

 

[Crane]

I enjoy Goldin's work, but when she starts talking about photography, per se, she's so full of you know what. E.G.: "The reason I use a Leica is because it actually has a subtext. It depends on what you’re photographing, but the lens shows you not just the surface: the levels underneath are revealed. Somebody told me once how optically this was possible. I just thought it was magic."

Nan, darling, it's micro-contrast, not metaphysics...

 

[Jeroen]

What the hell is she talking about?

 

[cmogi10]

Is that a modern Elmarit or am I mistaken?

 

[David Goldfarb]

When you asks an author or artist what their work means, you just get more text that requires interpretation.