Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/11

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Subject: RE: [Leica] [Leica} standards, Doisneau, Summicron performance
From: Jeffrey Hausner <Buzz@marianmanor.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:21:03 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Eric Welch [SMTP:ewelch@ponyexpress.net]
> Sent:	Monday, January 11, 1999 10:56 AM
> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject:	RE: [Leica] [Leica} standards, Doisneau, Summicron
> performance
> 
> >I could be wrong about this, but I remember H.C.-B. writing that he
> >posed the photograph of a man with his arms crossed over his bare chest
> >juxtaposed next to a pair of high-heeled shoes in a cabinet, which shoes,
> >sole to sole,  formed a heart shape.  The picture was, I believe, taken
> >during his first trip to Mexico.
> 
> Okay, so if that's true, I guess that would fall into the category of
> happy
> snaps. No? We all do pictures like that for fun. But the question is, when
> a picture is presented to the public as candid, it better be candid.
> 
> Eric Welch
> St. Joseph, MO
> http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
> 
	Sorry if I offended, I was just responding with information to a
statement I believed to be in error.  I offered no comment or observation
regarding when and how a picture should be presented as candid.

		Buzz