Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/05

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Subject: [Leica] Collecting News Photos
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Thu Apr 5 09:41:53 2007
References: <200704050259.l352wd86030286@server1.waverley.reid.org> <8ECF9B9A-4719-400A-A5DB-00C866CF4630@depaul.edu>

That's why they had photo editors in those days. Not so much as to  
assign, but to crop.
I'm sure by the time they used and re-used that shot, if at all, it  
went through an unlimited amount of cropping.

Slobodan Dimitrov




On Apr 5, 2007, at 7:34 AM, bob palmieri wrote:

>
> On Apr 4, 2007, Slobodan wrote:
>
>> One of my hobbies is collecting news photos from old defunct wire  
>> services.
>> I collect them to remind myself that there never was a golden age.
>> Technical mediocrity was normative.
>> Poor quality was the standard.
>> Content, more often than not, was poorly arranged and expressed.
>> Otherwise, people with cameras, were just making a living.
>
> Slobodan -
>
> I also dig around for publication photos here in Chicago.  Here's  
> one from this weekend (those so inclined may deconstruct at will):
>
> http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/image/76696736
>
> Bob Palmieri
>
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