Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Robert Frank in Ottawa
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:20:21 -0500

> At 01:56 PM 6/28/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>By the same token, when I was teaching my photo class last semester and
>>Robert Blake was charged with murder, in a complete aside I mentioned the
>>movie In Cold Blood and got cold stares. Turned out none of the kids had
>>ever seen it. Okay, I asked, but how many of you have read the book?
>>
>>Not a single hand went up. In a class of 15 of students who are supposed to
>>be 'the best and the brightest.'
>>
>>B. D.
>
>
> In Cold Blood is the scariest book I have ever read.  I had nightmares for
> months after reading it.
>
> Tina

....and to stay OT with Truman Capote, about 1950 he was in New Orleans with
Henri Cartier-Bresson and was in awe as he watched HCB flit around the
streets with 4 Leicas hanging from his neck, (as reported in the book
'Bystander').

sl
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