[AGL] who is Waldo Lydecker

[Bill Irwin]

You never mentioned that your wife was into photography before.  I love to look at pictures - send us some sample shots from your wife and yourself also.  Like to see them.
Aloha,
Ewie

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wayne Johnson 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:26 AM
  Subject: Re: [AGL] who is Waldo Lydecker


  Connie.

  I will respond at my usuall droll and boring length to this letter when I get back from town.  But before I forget, do you have the names of some of these Houston galleries that like to deal in photographs?  Most, most interested in contacting them, both for myself and for Honor (whose work is much, much more radical than mine and probably of more interest to those people.)

  Thanks a bunch.

  Google - Laura (the movie).  You should find an entire like dedicated to marvelous quotes from Waldo Lydecker.  His character is a hoot and a half.  If you can't find it, I will copy the URL and send it to you.

  later

  wayne
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Connie Clark 
    To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
    Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:58 AM
    Subject: [AGL] who is Waldo Lydecker


    WJ
    The basics of drawing and seeing goes to a similar idea that I had regarding civil engineering, in that all engineering students should not only take surveying classes (some don't these days), but perhaps spend a semester as a rod man on a survey crew.  It would be similar don't you think.

    Pretty much all of the major exhibitors here in Houston this Spring are worth the effort to see - and it does take time and energy to get over to the dozen or so exhibit spaces scattered around town.  There are a lot of adjunct galleries showing photos also, but they turn out to be a little on the wall calendar quality photos - pretty but....

    Techniques are all over the place.  Two artists I've seen are doing the photos of photos, laying organic materials over photo 1 with a mixture of b/w photo and color beans or twigs, a collage effect.

    Another thing I noticed are the work titles.  I often wonder about this, and in fact at a Man Ray show at the Houston Museum a few years back, I asked the guy who wrote the Banquet Years?  he was lecturing the opening - anyway, I had noticed that Man Ray tends to give very strange titles to his works, some artists just call their pieces #1 in a series, etc., so there must be something the artist is trying to convey when they compose a wierd indecipherable title.  oh yeah, it was Roger Shattuck, and he gave me a snobby answer, like I shouldn't expect the titles to mean anything.  What do you think?

    I didn't catch the WL reference, so will have to google it and see what I missed from you oh clever and reverent one.

    Oh, btw, you may be glad to hear that photographic art is selling big these days - with prices getting closer to paintings.

    Connie




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