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Response to Just Another Street Shot

from tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com)
Exactly my point, Todd, I hope you don't find my tone to be negative in any way. You seem to be trying to calm me down. This type of discussion is just what I enjoy about this forum, and the P.o.P forum as well.

To reinforce my point and your re-expression of it, I really like Joel Peter Witkins' work, but I can't imagine where I would hang it in my home. This is true of some of Jeff's work, also. Not for the same reasons, obviously. While I appreciate what he's doing and how he does it, I would rather have a book of those images, to get the "drift" rather than pick one or two "hits" and display them out of context and frustrate Jeff's attempts to communicate his understanding of the world (or his lack of understanding... Maybe that would be better expressed as his reflection of the world, through the Spirer Filter)... t

My comment about buying is an inside joke for me, only, sorry. Many people think to collect art as an investment. Astute collectors will only buy work they like, because, as Chris Rock says... Ya never know... t

(posted 8617 days ago)

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