Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] HCB Did It All First
From: Eric Welch <eric@jphotog.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:00:00 -0700

on 06/20/03 6:04 PM, Slobodan Dimitrov at sld@earthlink.net wrote:

> I could hardly say that! But I always found his work bordering on the
> insipid long before it was fashionable to fawn or bash.

Of course, it's always a matter of taste. But to call it insipid is
ludicrous. Cartier-Bresson is not easy to get, for a lot of people. Just
like a lot of people don't get Gary Winogrand, or Ansel Adams, or Edward
Weston, or Maholy-Nagy. (Or Picasso for that matter.) But insipid? Hardly.

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA
http://www.jphotog.com

Ernest Hemingway's writing reminds me of the farting of an old horse.
- - E.B. White

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