Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/14

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Subject: [Leica] New Yorker
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue Dec 14 17:04:09 2004
References: <1103050541.41bf372db0f4e@webmail.mit.edu>

B D Colen wrote:

> 
> Speaking of the New Yorker...There was a truly fascinating article in last
> week's issue by Malcolm Gladwell, a science writer. It's about images, and 
> how
> difficult it is to discern their true meaning. The focus of the piece is
> certainly not "our kind" of photography - it's on mamography and the use of
> photographs by the military for targeting and target assessment. But many 
> of
> the points apply equally well to "Leica photography." In fact, they apply 
> so
> well I am planning to have my students read the piece and then look at Bill
> Clough's stunning and mysterious 
> "Madison."> B. D. 


url please for Bill's Madison....thanks, Steve

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