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Rich indeed I saw that image too. I was very taken by how powerful these images
were v.s. just knowing them from a book. My girlfriend saw the exhibit 2xs and she
seldom is impressed with images. Well, I liked a lot the first image in London with
fog and bankers walking a valley of buildings but there were so many profound and
compelling compositions.
My fave part of the exhibit was the contact sheets. Wow!!! There it was the
awesome, the good, the OK and the ugly for the whole world to see. On average
4/5 master images per contact sheet. That's phenomenal. Also one could see the
mental/visual choices as he shot 2/3/4 images of the same scene as it evolved.
Way cool!
I had been told also by a few friends who teach photography and consider Robert
Frank a photographic genius that his lab work unfortunately was not at the same
level of his compositions. Since I saw Ansel's exhibit first, I could see why anyone
could think that.
Auntipode, although I can appreciate likes and dislikes (my own included) O'keefe
paintings are very specialized (flowers) with a pervasive western flavor and intense
colors. Mine isn't a dislike at large or due to acclaim or lack thereof. Irrespective
the value of art is not dependent on me liking it or feeling personally compelled by
it, thank God...
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n the other hand, I did not care at all for Georgia's paintings.