As Claude Levi-Strauss once moaned, plaintively, "This treatise about photography and art is as difficult to muddle through as a field of primordial mud. And less fragrant. Can someone please bring me a latté with an extra shot of espresso?" Then, according to those present, he nudged his smudged glasses up on his nose and, with a long sigh, continued reading about the importance of being earnest with cameras. Especially so with the sacred niche of un-decisive moment landscape photography.
After hearing about this Garry Winogrand laughed, coughed, loaded a few more rolls of Tri-X, rolled his eyes and then, with a Leica camera over both shoulders he headed out the door saying, "This one is for that hoodwinked sucker, Szarkowski. I could shoot poodle shit and he'd buy a print for the museum."
Meal tickets secured, they became legendary for their opacity.
Photo: The wall as a metaphor for massively parallel processing in nature.
