[pure-silver] Re: A Walk Through the Exhibition
- From: "Hagner, Andrew" <Andrew_Hagner@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:56:23 -0400
Dear Uncle:
I am not surprised at your reaction. I saw his exhibit in my native
Toronto and came out totally disappointed at his work. Great bulk of
the exhibit consisted of generally non-memorable prints of groups of
people. The famous images were there too, but the overall quality of
printing was poor to say the least. The prints were in fact murky and
rather lifeless. (I think he printed his own photographs.)
Photographer friends who came to see the exhibit were of similar
opinions. Shortly after seeing the exhibit, I read in Lenswork as Bill
Jay rather humorously wrote about Man Ray being somewhat overrated.
- Andrew, silently reading and enjoying every post from Toronto.
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Dear Friends,
Just back from my week's holiday in Melbourne. If that seems a
strange place to go to escape from care, consider the fact that they
have hotels, hot running water, and bookshops. My days of camping in a
hoochie with a rifle and a billy of tea are over....
They also have the National Gallery of Victoria - this last week
exhibiting a Man Ray room with many of his famous photographs. I am
assuming that what I saw were many originals, but I am unsure whether I
saw final prints or just darkroom work prints. In any case I was
somewhat taken aback by them.
Not from an artistic standpoint, I hasten to add - I have several
books on Man Ray and his assistants and recognised many of the images.
What puzzled me was their presentation.
Small. Dark. Raggedy-edged. Crumpled and flattened-out. Spotty.
Bronzing over. All matted beautifully, but sometimes lost in the center
of a vast frame. I'm talking about a 6 cm x 9 cm image in a 12 in x 16
in frame. And smaller in larger. Some images up to 11 x 14 but none what
I would have come to believe was an exhibition size.
Is this what happens at other international exhibitions? None of the
images looked like the posters used for the advertising - these were
closer to what I had seen in books. I am wondering a little cynically if
the look of some photographers is made by their printer and indeed the
publisher's printer rather than themselves.
Still fascinating images nevertheless - enjoyed it once I overcame
my surprise.
Uncle Dick
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