Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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