Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why not? He shot everything else and used every manufacturers' products that were given to him. Strong emphasis on the word "given". I am not degrading what he did or how he made his living. He was a truly great, and I am a big fan. However it becomes really obvious that he needed to support his family. He did that with product promotions, endorsements, and product reviews ( technical advisor is the more PC wording). Whatever support he could find that put $$$ in his pocket. Yes, he preferred not to do this, but he did it. If you review his body of work done for the University California program, the putput is drab and without love. It is the pictures he did AROUND that body of commissioned work that is outstanding. Yes he used Contax, Leica, Eastman, Kodak, Ansco, Hasselblad, Polaroid, and who knows what else. Going 1 step further, HE was great. He used tools that assisted him. The Leica, Contax, Kodak, Hasselblad or other are really a footnote in his lifelong appendix. Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net