Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D. Thank you so much for this link. I have just spent the last hour immersed in this man's work. You're absolutely correct when you say that it is inspirational. Rob "B. D. Colen" wrote: > The UNC Chapel Hill library has William Gedney's journals, writings, books - > and all his prints, contact sheets, and negs - and there are countless > photos on-line that can be browsed through...The work is incredibly > good....I would recommend that anyone interested try starting here.. > http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/gedney/books/bd03/ > > This is a dummy - with photos - for a book Gedney put together, but never > published, called 31 Photographs, 1968...If you want inspiration, this is > the place to go... > > B. D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Rob Appleby > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 3:42 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Weekly Submission > > BD - my thoughts exactly - although the wife of two weeks was his new > girlfriend in my version. > R. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 9:21 PM > Subject: RE: [Leica] Weekly Submission > > > On the other hand, the man on the right could be an AA member who has left > > his besotted gang of friends on the left, and is standing thinking, 'Damn! > > Can't those jerks ever have fun without getting smashed?' as he waits for > > his gorgeous wife of two weeks, whom he adores madly, to come pick him up. > > > > No Noir.:-) > > > > B. D. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John Bohner > > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 3:02 PM > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Weekly Submission > > > > > > Re Bill Clough's PAW > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/wccjr/image-30920.html > > I like the image just as it is as it turns the imagination free. > > > > Obviously the man on the right is depressed and a bit drunk. > > He is staring at a reflection in the water at his feet. > > It is of a half dressed woman combing her hair in the window > > of the 2nd floor apartment across the street. > > Her inverted image has started him thinking of his youth in > > Amsterdam as a photographer's assistant lugging a > > view camera to the more notorious districts of the city. > > Little did he know then, he would become a serious Leica addict, > > spending his meager pension on folding lens hoods for ancient > > elmarits and eating his cat's food. > > The people to the left are laughing, sharing an digital camera's > > image of their party in the restaurant they have just left. > > Yes, film noir, it is. > > > > John B > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html