Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/12

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Subject: [Leica] RE: Family of Man II
From: "Roger Beamon" <roger@beamon.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:14:16 -0700
References: <SIMEON.10010120943.D@sova-walt.unt.edu>

On 12 Oct 2000, B. D. Colen wrote, at least in part:

> To continue down a track I started down yesterday...
> 
> Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston, 

<snip>

> ....Is there a point here? Yes....As much as I think this is a
> wonderful project, and would like to contribute to it, I think it
> needs some really serious rethinking in terms of what it is going
> to be and what it is going to mean to whom. 

<snip>

All you bring up, B.D. can and will be handled by the capable 
editing of Alastair and a couple of his buddies swilling that good 
Aussie beeeaar during a few Sat. evenings at the local saloon in 
2005.

> and how we might tone down what I would suggest is the hubris
> involved at this point. 

Hubris? Hardly! You better not use that rather insulting 
descriptive word in that saloon. I'd call it enthusiasm, and 
justifiable I'll bet!

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In reply to: Message from Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu> (Re: [Leica] Family of Man II)