Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When in NYC this past weekend I saw some photos at Newseum/NY featuring "A Year in the World: 1968, The Magnum Photographs". It's at 57th & Madison and runs through 1/30/99. Wonderful exhibit. Nicely printed. A whole litany of Magnum photographers whose images we're well acquainted with. Riboud had some photos taken in Hanoi (and elsewhere in Viet Nam) of Ho Chi Minh and another person whose name I forget. I was struck by the softness of the photos. They were done under reasonably controlled circumstances with both men seated talking. Anyway, I mention this to reinforce Donal's observations. Carl S. Donal Philby wrote: > > I have a book by Marc Riboud about Ankor Wat that was shot in the 60s > and then in the 90s. Considerable differences in the characteristics of > the images. The earlier are soft and newer are sharper and with better > tonal smoothness. All Leica. I attributed the differences to the > film. Maybe not. > > donal > -- > Donal Philby > San Diego > www.donalphilby.com