Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/03

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Subject: RE: [Leica] The artless art
From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 20:44:52 -0400
 
One of the marks of a master is to make it seem so easy that anyone could do
it.

Jonathan Borden

>
>
> Alastair Firkin wrote:
>
> > HCB is a GREAT portraitist is my opinion
>
>
> What I see is the result of someone snapping at people around him
> without making very serious attempts at composition, lighting etc. The
> result is fairly comparable to happy snaps, only it looks more
> intriguing because of the black and white, and because there are no
> cheesy smiles.