Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/24

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Subject: [Leica] Darkroom
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:41:35 -0500
 
At 01:41 PM 3/24/98 -0500, Art Peterson wrote:
>I would like to ask you, and any other 
>     LUG member who may wish to offer advice, how a photographer like Henri 
>     Cartier-Bresson (who I've heard did not do any darkroom work) achieved 
>     the magnificent prints that he did.

I believe Cartier-Bresson has used the same darkroom tech for donkey's
years -- the two have worked together for so very long that he understands
CB, and CB understands him.  Most of us don't have such a luxury, and have
to use 'any old lab' at hand -- and, thus, the loss of creative control.

I wouldn't take pictures if I didn't print them myself.

Marc


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