tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244958032570159730.post2344274328468620058..comments2023-04-14T08:03:31.286-05:00Comments on a blog by Leslie K. Brown ...a.k.a... {miscellany}: John Szarkowski story number #1LKBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03116833766142293436noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244958032570159730.post-84000846867679705042007-07-11T19:28:00.000-05:002007-07-11T19:28:00.000-05:00Thanks for your comment. Even for me, a generatio...Thanks for your comment. Even for me, a generation hence, I feel I have a different relationship to him and his ideas than students today. I did one of my grad papers on the plethora of 150th anniversary photobooks, his included. In 1995, 1989 wasn't in the far distance past and photohistorians had just begun to look at historiography of their own medium and discipline. So much has changed LKBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03116833766142293436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244958032570159730.post-88916255296110216202007-07-11T13:29:00.000-05:002007-07-11T13:29:00.000-05:00In some way, I feel those of us who are more veste...In some way, I feel those of us who are more vested and linked to Szarkwoski's influences (students of Lee, Friedlander, Winogrand, Arbus, etc.) have seen the passing of an era, our ear.<BR/><BR/>P'takerpitchertakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02714720069598091235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244958032570159730.post-25851475641156914692007-07-11T10:00:00.000-05:002007-07-11T10:00:00.000-05:00I met him in 1974, when he gave the commencement s...I met him in 1974, when he gave the commencement speech at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, which I was attending. The theme of the talk, if I remember right, was how hard it was to be a good artist and that we should all think twice about it. He also seemed very fond of my girlfriend. Sounds like the same man you met!<BR/><BR/>PelleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com