Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:19 AM 31-01-98 -0600, Eric wrote: >That's right. I have a story about that. Guido Mattoni hired >Cartier-Bresson to shoot a story on Portugal for Epoca Magazine (Italy's >equivalent of Life back then). By the way, Guido told me this story >personally. He said Cartier-Bresson went to Portugal and shot two rolls of >Ektachrome for the magazine. Yes, two rolls. And out of 72 frames of film, >there was 70 that could be used in the magazine. Without denigrating HCB (I think he's one of the greatest photographers), I suspect that he could walk into pretty well any magazine and get two rolls of toilet paper published, such is his reputation. Dan C.