Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:49 PM 01-02-98 -0600, you wrote: >At 09:55 AM 2/1/98 -0500, you wrote: > >>There are big names and then there's HCB > >I don't think he's the ultimate photographer. He's great, and all that. >Don't get me wrong, but there there are other photographers who I prefer to >him. And as far as the magazine industry, they don't care who he is, they >don't publish pictures they don't like. >========== Of course magazines will not publish anything they don't like. My point is that if HCB walked into their offices, they WILL like anything he shows them. I guess my point is that even if he is not the worlds greatest photographer, he has one of the greatest reputations as a photographer. And it is this reputation that allows museums to display his pedestrian, studenty drawings alongside his famous photographs. Seeing some of the crap magazines publish with famous bi-lines attached, I am convinced that magazines such as American Photo will publish his test prints if given half a chance. Just MHO! Dan C.