Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Magnum? a bloke with a Hawaii flowered shirt and a moustache, or was it a big bottle of booze? May have been a revolver too - what have all these got to do with photography B.D.??? ;-) Douglas HCB is the Hungarian Coal Board B. D. Colen wrote: >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, >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 > > > >