[AGL] photo art education

[Kathy]

What a nice get well present to yourself to sleep late and then go to  
the MFAH. I hope you included chocolate in there  somewhere. I was  
interested to see the show's coming to Austin Museum of Art May 19  
thru August something.  I was only able to see a few of the images -  
the click to see details didn't work, but it looked like a very rich   
treat for the eye and soul.
Enjoyed your post, get better soon- what will be your get well  
present to yourself tomorrow?
Kathy
On Jan 9, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Connie Clark wrote:


> I called in sick today suffering with sinus irritation.  Slept most  

> of the morning, then logged in to office email and advised those  

> interested, that I wouldn't be jumping thru hoops today.  Around  

> noon, I got up, made the bed, got dressed and decided to spend part  

> of this sunny and very pleasant day over at the MFAH.  I wanted to  

> see the MFAH photo collection exhibit they put on, and a moderately  

> sick day was just the ticket.  30 years ago, somebody at the Target  

> stores helped MFAH get started on a photography collection. They  

> now own about 22,000 images. Many, many famous ones.

>

> Not a big show but an overview of photography art history with  

> several photogravures including Stiegliz and Weston.  There was a  

> Russell Lee, a thirties picture of a man with badly worn shoes and  

> socks with his wife in front of a radio.  Stiegliz' 'Steerage', and  

> I especially liked the Walker Evans. The Target Collection travels  

> to Austin in March.  They didn't charge anything for the show, and  

> I went through it in less than an hour.

>

> http://www.mfah.org/main.asp?target=exhibition&par1=1&par2=1&par3=361

>

> I agree with Bob about photographic art having a lot to do with  

> where one finds oneself when taking a picture. Opportunity must  

> guide the artist. Last week, I guess others on the list also saw  

> the PBS American Master's series on Annie Liebowitz.  I learned a  

> lot about her, and realize that she must be very talented, but had  

> to have received quite a boost to her career when she started  

> shooting famous persons that everyone wanted to see, and published  

> in the hippest magazine of a couple of decades, Rolling Stone.   

> But, one can see that of the many shots she makes in a session,  

> there is more than just one good one to play with. Could Stephanie  

> have done it? or even Simmons? given the same break - Maybe so.

>

> Over the last half-dozen years or so, I have been learning a lot  

> about photographic art through the numerous local venues, and enjoy  

> the posts of discussion and opinion on the subject from the  

> listees.  Tonight, a more mundane photo chore for me.  Yesterday,  

> in a pinch, on a construction job site, I shot some pictures with  

> my cell phone camera, and I need to find out how to download them  

> to the computer for printout.  Who knows, one of them may be art.   

> I'll let you know.

>

> Feeling better, but tomorrow I may stay home one more day to be sure,

> Sorry for the lengthy post.

> Connie

>

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