[Leica] I Remember Mike!

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

>If  Mike is so darned smart he might expand his list of camera 
>heroes a bit... Ralph Gibson, Sally Mann, Raymond Depardon, Gilles 
>Peress,  Josef Koudelka, William Klein, Salgado, Paolo Pelligrin, 
>Elliot Erwitt, ...on and on and on.......Having said that now 
>everyone can return to discussing the latest magenta monster in 
>glorious b&w.

Elliot Erwitt???

Actually I like him, but I can't say I hold him up as one of the 10 
greatest. On the other hand, Koudelka would certainly make my list, 
as would Meyerowitz and Davidson, and even though Burtynsky is 
Canadian, and he produces a type of photography I enjoy, he wouldn't 
make my list either.

There are no specific genres that I require that my '10 best' 
produce, but I do require that they show innovation rather than 
finding a small niche and stagnating. I also require that anything 
new that they show stimulates me to explore new concepts. I really 
don't want to see the same thing again and again.

>buzz.hausner@verizon.net wrote:
>
>>Mike Johnston tends to be...oh?...rather firm in his judgements and 
>>just a wee bit iconoclastic.  Some of the members of longer 
>>standing may remember when Mike was a LUG member.  I suspect that 
>>Mike would be pleased to note that he has stimulated people to talk 
>>about...gasp...PHOTOGRAPHY!!!
>>
>>Buzz

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