Comments on: Magnum Photos, Not Like a Trip to the DMV: Alec Soth and Joans Bendiksen on The Leonard Lopate Show http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/2007/06/21/magnum-photos-not-like-a-trip-to-the-dmv-alec-soth-and-joans-bendiksen-on-the-leonard-lopate-show/ Photographs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:42:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: val http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/2007/06/21/magnum-photos-not-like-a-trip-to-the-dmv-alec-soth-and-joans-bendiksen-on-the-leonard-lopate-show/#comment-1452 val Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:31:59 +0000 http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/2007/06/21/magnum-photos-not-like-a-trip-to-the-dmv-alec-soth-and-joans-bendiksen-on-the-leonard-lopate-show/#comment-1452 Just browsing. you know i WILL totally ask you about this later. hope nyc is treating you well. will be in this coming weekend. maybs meet up? cheers! val Just browsing. you know i WILL totally ask you about this later.
hope nyc is treating you well. will be in this coming weekend. maybs meet up?

cheers! val

]]> By: Nolan Smock http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/2007/06/21/magnum-photos-not-like-a-trip-to-the-dmv-alec-soth-and-joans-bendiksen-on-the-leonard-lopate-show/#comment-1451 Nolan Smock Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:27:51 +0000 http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/2007/06/21/magnum-photos-not-like-a-trip-to-the-dmv-alec-soth-and-joans-bendiksen-on-the-leonard-lopate-show/#comment-1451 Great rundown. I was out and missed it (although now I see it's archived). I think bringing up the female-to-male ratio is definitely interesting. The other day I was thinking how male-centric the art world seems to be the majority of the time in general. Yeah, there are plenty of great female photographers, obviously, and personally I'm inspired by their work more, but the whole aesthetic and approach lying beneath contemporary photography seems to me very masculine, almost overbearingly so. Cold, white walls, large prints, hard lines, deadpan. Weirds me out. Seems to be this way for most of the art world, though. Anyway, bit of a rant. Hope NY is treating you well. Great rundown. I was out and missed it (although now I see it’s archived).
I think bringing up the female-to-male ratio is definitely interesting. The other day I was thinking how male-centric the art world seems to be the majority of the time in general. Yeah, there are plenty of great female photographers, obviously, and personally I’m inspired by their work more, but the whole aesthetic and approach lying beneath contemporary photography seems to me very masculine, almost overbearingly so. Cold, white walls, large prints, hard lines, deadpan. Weirds me out.
Seems to be this way for most of the art world, though.
Anyway, bit of a rant. Hope NY is treating you well.

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