http://blog.dukemedia.com/archive/thinking-a-lot-about-photography-lately/ What Medium does the Message Want? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:45:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blog.dukemedia.com/archive/thinking-a-lot-about-photography-lately/#comment-2 photodomo Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:10:31 +0000 http://blog.dukemedia.com/?p=10#comment-2 Avedon's "In the American West" exhibit is currently at Stanford's Cantor arts center. I was there two weeks ago and was simply blown away. The portraits were amazing with an "honest" documentary style that reminded me a lot of August Sander's work (citizens of the 20th century). Not that I have anything against Avendon's portraits of celebrities and other high fashion work, but these images of the so-called common man were, for me, on a whole different level. Sounds contradictory but it was equally inspiring and overwhelming. Avedon’s “In the American West” exhibit is currently at Stanford’s Cantor arts center. I was there two weeks ago and was simply blown away. The portraits were amazing with an “honest” documentary style that reminded me a lot of August Sander’s work (citizens of the 20th century). Not that I have anything against Avendon’s portraits of celebrities and other high fashion work, but these images of the so-called common man were, for me, on a whole different level. Sounds contradictory but it was equally inspiring and overwhelming.

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