Artists’ reputations are primarily determined by other artists: Painters decide who belongs in painting’s canon, just as poets write poetry’s history, and an homage to one director by another is worth a dozen Academy Awards. The rest of us are just tagging along.
John Szarkowski, the great hidden influence on photography. – By Jim Lewis – Slate Magazine
Artists’ reputations are primarily determined by other artists: Painters decide who belongs in painting’s canon, just as poets write poetry’s history, and an homage to one director by another is worth a dozen Academy Awards. The rest of us are just tagging along.
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