RE: [Leica] Garry Winogrand

["Dan Honemann" <ddh@home.com>]

Hi Nathan,

I'm captivated by street photography: seeing the everyday and the ordinary
in a new light.  How often have we walked down a crowded city street and not
_seen_?  Our attention is diverted to a thousand thoughts and daydreams, the
next item on the to-do list, the next destination.

But street photography brings our attention back home, back here, to the
journey itself.  Look, it cries, there is beauty all around us!  Look at how
these faces are lit up!

(Okay, so you're hearing from a sleep-deprived new owner of an M6 who's
under the spell of these Winogrand photographs.)

Tell me more about Bill Brandt.

Dan

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 6:19 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Garry Winogrand


Dan,
As far as I know he used the 28mm a lot.
It is interesting how a person's work can inspire such different reactions.
You like him; I find much of the work that I have seen contrived and
technically inferior. But that's OK, it is the spice of life to have
different tastes.
On a more positive note, I have similarly spent several hours perusing a
Bill Brandt book recently and was absolutely captivated.
Nathan