Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> How's this for depressing? Thursday night I handed out a "pop quiz" > to the > first meeting of my MIT doc photo/pj class. It was ridiculously > simple, and > was designed to give me a way to throw out anyone I needed to throw > out > because I always have too many kids sign up. One question was: > > 2. Who coined the phrase ?the decisive moment?? > A. Susan Sontag > B. Mathew Brady > C. Henri Cartier-Bresson > D. None of the above > Only THREE of 19 MIT students got it right - and I think they were > guessing, they would have done better by guessing.... or maybe they did guess by picking the only one that they had ever heard of... Sontag... (I fear that's the way we elect our leaders) :-) Steve > because not one of the kids later acknowledged being familiar with > HCB's > work. Further, NOT ONE knew what Magnum was. Oh, most frequent > guess on > question 2? Susan Sontag. :-( > > Fookin kids! :-( > > B. D. > > > On 2/11/06 9:37 AM, "Craig Schroeder" <craig@craigschroeder.com> > wrote: > >> >>>> >>>> >>>> Like I said , it's far more important to be where these events >>>> happen, >>>> otherwise you never have the opportunities to capture the pictures. >>>> >>> >>> I've always thought the phrase: "f8 and be there" summed this up >>> rather >>> nicely. >>> >>> Emanuel >>> >>> >> At my age, it's, F-what and be where? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information