Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Greatest Leica Photographers
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 18:57:09 -0600

At 08:56 AM 3/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Erwitt would get my vote except he mostly uses Canon now, but he may be the
>most versatile photographer in the history of the medium.  I spoke to an art
>director last year who had hired Erwitt for a job in NY.  He said Erwitt
>shot more good pix as they walked to the job than the job itself.

He's always used Canon, for his professional stuff. And an M and 50mm lens 
for his personal work. Most of the time, anyway. Has he switched to EOS?

>Salgado only does documentary generally.

And assignment work from Magazines, that's not terribly documentary in the 
classic sense.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

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