People We Should Know Better, Part I

[amateriat]

For your consideration:

http://tinyurl.com/yx9uvp


- Barrett

 

[jlw]

Um, yeah. But I can't help thinking that, like a lot of artistic gurus, he benefitted hugely by being in the right place at the right time with the right line of B.S.

To put it more bluntly, if he had been a conservative Republican and/or had taught at, say, the University of Wyoming instead of funky Hampshire College, nobody would be writing paens to him in the New York Times no matter how talented and inspirational he was.

 

[amateriat]

Oh, you had to drag Wyoming into this? 😉

I grok your point about favoritism (remember the low-level food-fight here earlier regarding Leibovitz?), but it can be murky territory. And, much as I generally don't dig Leibovitz (for a number of reasons), I still find her interesting. Same with Liebling, although his work is more interesting to my eye.


- Barrett

 

[Stephanie Brim]

You know, it would be much more proper for us to lob used film cartridges at eachother than food.

"That is not (fwack) what I meant (fwack) by that statement! (fwack fwack fwack)"

😀

 

[amateriat]

Okay, so long as you don't lob a sack-full of cassettes at a time! ;-)

- Barrett