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Subject: [Leica] Re: world press winners 2006
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Sat Feb 11 07:42:05 2006
References: <C013629D.C365%bdcolen@comcast.net>

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:
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>>>>Like I said , it's far more important to be where these events happen,
>>>>otherwise you never have the opportunities to capture the pictures.
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>I've always thought the phrase: "f8 and be there" summed this up rather
>>>nicely.
>>>
>>>Emanuel
>>>
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>>>
>>At my age, it's, F-what and be where?
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