[New-Poetry] Poetic Justice

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While at LACMA I discovered the  current exhibit happened to be Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008
 
I was stunned and overwhelmed.  I had to revisit twice over to absorb it all.  A must see! 
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs1913–2008
October 26, 2008–March 1, 2009 | Hammer Building
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008 is the first major exhibition to bring together the magazine's historic archive of rare vintage prints with its contemporary photographs. The exhibition explores the ways in which photography and celebrity have interacted and changed, with portraits from the magazine's early period (1913–1936) displayed in conjunction with works from the contemporary Vanity Fair (1983–present). The Los Angeles presentation, which is sponsored by Burberry, will be the only U.S. stop on the exhibition's international tour. Photographers to be represented include Cecil Beaton, Harry Benson, Julian Broad, Imogen Cunningham, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray, Mary Ellen Mark, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Edward Steichen, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber.
Curators: Terence Pepper, curator of photographs, National Portrait Gallery, and David Friend, editor of creative development, Vanity Fair. Curator at LACMA: Charlotte Cotton, photography.
A collaboration between Vanity Fair and the National Portrait Gallery, London.


 Charmaine Pettit "Memory believes before knowing remembers.  Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders." P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail
 
 > Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:16:52 -0800> To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu> Subject: Re: Re: Re: [New-Poetry] Poetic Justice> From: rewatlingjr at comcast.net> > On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:24:11 -0800, Judy Prince > <jbalizsprince at googlemail.com> wrote:> > > Me trying to beat back awe and envy for your experiences, Robert! > > Please [don't ask me how] tell me what it was like to be standing there > > looking at the Real Thing.> >> > Judy> > > Thanks Judy for the kind response to my first post to this list. The Kline > kind of leered at me from the end of the gallery. I couldn't avoid it, not > that I tried but was looking at each thing as I came to it and there it > hung at the end of the room. I'd turn a corner looking at different > things, moving in to look at brush strokes and details and moving back to > get the whole and kept seeing this big black thing in the corner of my eye > until I just had to stop and absorb it. I'm not an artist or educated much > in art. Some things just get into my head, like Monet's Water Lilies, the > version in the Cleveland Museum of Art as opposed to the one in Portland > that doesn't touch me at all. The Kline just did it for me and I can still > see it in feel it in my mind. Then to turn around and see the Lebovitz > photo, I just burst out laughing. And with all these words I still haven't > really said what happened to me that day. But I will say that in a day > that for me was not inspiring, the juxtoposition of those two works was > brilliant. Now I can't remember either without thinking of the other. > Thanks again...rob.> -- > "Cogito ergo...how does that go again?"...rewjr.> _______________________________________________> New-Poetry mailing list> New-Poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu> http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/new-poetry
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