Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/13

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Subject: RE: [Leica] a quote from HCB
From: "Gerry Walden" <gerrywalden@cwcom.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:00:34 +0100

So, because of Salgados sensitivity there is nothing barbaric about it!

Gerry

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Dan Cardish
Sent: 13 July 2001 09:53
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] a quote from HCB


Something to think about:

"There is something appalling about photographing people. It is certainly
some form of violation. So if sensitivity is lacking, there can be
something barbaric about it."

- - Henri Cartier-Bresson (taken from a review of a Salgado exhibition
reviewed in the New York Times
(http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/13/arts/design/13KIMM.html))
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dan c.