Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Eggleston
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:52:26 -0700

You are a scholar and a gentleman.

John Collier

> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:14:45 -0000
> Subject: [Leica] Eggleston
> 
> 
> 
> I still think that the Tenn. road photo is pretty awful, but having looked
> at more of Eggleston's work I don't think the Tenn. photo is at all
> representative. I vastly prefer B&W to color, but that aside, his work is
> damn impressive in terms of composition, subject matter, and, yes, color.
> And, yes, I do see the Walker Evans parallels.
>