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At a few years short of 50 and with my first solo NY show just a couple of weeks away I feel fortunate to live a creative life. Opportunity and reward do not come without risk. I am not sure what is the greater risk, to be ignored, to be forgotten or to never have tried. Since I can control just one of those, I can only risk the other two in public. We’ll see how comfortable I am in in my own skin later in the year.
Happy New Year
In today's NY Times KEN JOHNSON starts off a review of O. Winston Link with the line:
GENIUS in photography often means a knack for being in the right place at the right time.
Does Mr Johnson really believe this is true in the present tense?
Should the line have read : "Once upon a time genius in photography often meant a knack for being in the right place at the right time."
But if we read on we are redeemed
The truth is that Link’s train pictures were not products of chance but of elaborate planning and ingenious stagecraft. His process was more like a movie director’s than a photojournalist’s.
Thank you Mr Johnson and Happy New Year.
Ron Diorio
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