Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Ansel Adams, Yosemite NP, and Moonscapes
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:58:42 -0800

Eric Welch wrote:
> 
> >Dorothy Lange was working for the PFRA (around the
> >time when Adams worked as her darkroom assistant)
> 
> I would hardly call it that. She used his darkroom in San Francisco, I
> believe, and he helped her, more like taught her, to print. According to
> him, she was a pretty poor printer. But then, compared to him, 99 percent
> of the photographers out there are rank amateur printers. :-)
snip
I think is was Stieglitz who used the term amateur as the ultimate
photographic compliment.
I think in the world of photography this has often held true with most
photographers worse printers than their assistants. But I know your were kidding.
Mark Rabiner