VOX POP.Byline: The Register-Guard Art? Or artifice? `Don't be fooled: Diane Arbus' casual, snapshot style was the result of meticulous manipulation.' Don't worry, I wasn't fooled, but I had to laugh. The Register-Guard has seen fit to publish an article (``Photographer's brilliant trickery Trickery See also Cunning, Deceit, Humbuggery. Bunsby, Captain Jack trapped into marriage by landlady. [Br. Lit.: Dombey and Son] Camacho cheated of bride after lavish wedding preparations. [Span. Lit. ,'' Oregon Life section, Jan. 25) by The Washington Post's Blake Gopnik about a `landmark retrospective' show of deceased photographer Diane Arbus Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer, noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of society. Early life Diane Nemerov at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a major modern art museum and San Francisco landmark. It opened in 1935 under founding director Dr. Grace Morley (Grace L. . Gee, when I die, it would be nice if Mr. Gopnik would write an article about my photography, but I hope I don't have to commit suicide as Ms. Arbus did. What a crock crock - [American scatologism "crock of shit"] 1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner. For example, using small integers to represent error codes without the program interpreting them to the user (as in, for example, Unix "make(1)", which of bull (the article). The images published alongside the article were a good example of much ado about nothing Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare. First published in 1600, it was likely first performed in the winter of 1598-1599,[1] and it remains one of Shakespeare's most enduring plays on stage. . I suppose in order to justify the museum exhibit, a certain amount of smoke has to be blown about them, but to compare the snapshots of the photographer to Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (də vĭn`chē, Ital. lāōnär`dō dä vēn`chē), 1452–1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, b. near Vinci, a hill village in Tuscany. , Rembrandt and Thomas Gainsborough makes this piece look like a joke. It goes on to say, `... you can find traces of stunningly impressive trickery.' Trickery? (insert laugh here). She used flash-on-camera and the writer says, ``... as though to shed an uncompromising, truthful light into every corner of this strange reality' and, `that burst of light actually injects artifice, not truth' (another laugh). Surely, The Register-Guard could make better use of the space for local and more meaningful arts information (no laugh here). Artifice, indeed! CLIFF COLES Eugene |
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