Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > From: Bernard <5521.g23@g23.relcom.ru> > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 23:03 > Subject: Re: [Leica] HCB Portaits at Washington Post site > > > And I'm afraid I must say that I find the majority of > > these photos tremendously unremarkable. > > A lot of them do look pretty ordinary. > > I have several little books put out by Magnum with portraits of various famous > people (writers, movie stars). HCB has a few in each (including some of the > same ones shown on the Web site). However, his are no better or worse than the > others. There are many very good portraits, and most of the best are not HCB's > work (but as I said, he is only represented by a few images). I don't know how > many of them use Leicas (does or did everyone at Magnum use Leicas?). > > -- Anthony HCB has a whole book of portraits out that I was looking at this week. Not my favorite HCB. He's better when he doesn't ask first! Mark Rabiner