Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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?¾ > A. Susan Sontag > B. Mathew Brady > C. Henri Cartier-Bresson > D. None of the above If even one of them recognized who Brady was, I'll have a heart attack! And then there's my 8-year-old son Ezra. This summer, while we were on a beach in Egypt and I was talking about photography -- female photographers, specifically -- with a couple of Israeli tourists, Ezra picked his head up from the sand castle he was building and interrupted: "You mean like Margaret Bourke-White?" I almost had a heart attack there too. How did he know the name? He'd watched Mel Gibson in "What Women Want." Kids today find education in the strangest places. Emanuel