Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/29

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re : Nachtwey's Capas, >> >Salgados, Evans, etc
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:21:37 -0400

And Pamela Lee Anderson manages to eke out a career as well....

Sorry, but with the exception of a handful of images, I think that
Eisenstadt was, basically, a reasonably talented celebrity photographer who
got VERY far on a wonderful personality. Does that make him or his work
bad?...Of course not. But I sure hope our standard for what is good,
meaningful, significant, artistic, is not whether or not the particularly
individual can eke out a career...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Craig
> Roberts
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 12:05 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re : Nachtwey's Capas, >> >Salgados, Evans, etc
>
>
> "It's all designed to appeal to the emotional equivalent or arena that
> prompted people to observe Christians being fed to the lions." -
> John London
>
> Well...the more sensitive among us are in good company.
>
> Leicaphile Alfred Eisenstaedt said:  "I do not photograph blood or war or
> the homeless. I would not want anyone to photograph me stretched
> out on the
> subway steps."
>
> Somehow he managed to eke out a career, anyway.
>
> Craig
> Boston
>
>
>
>

Replies: Reply from "Craig Roberts" <croberts@zoomtel.com> ([Leica] Re: Eisie, et al)