Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/31

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Subject: [Leica] AA or Uncle Earl?
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:12:50 -0500
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Just as an afterthought, I would strongly suggest that anyone still 
printing in the darkroom attend one of John's classes.  It improved my 
printing and saved more time and money than I would have imagined.


On 7/31/2010 5:04 PM, Richard Man wrote:
> OMG, that would either boost the student's ego to 9th heaven, or they must
> have thought that he has gone mad! :-) I hope he tell them the little trick
> later though :-)
>
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Ken Carney<kcarney1 at cox.net>  wrote:
>
>    
>> I took a printing class with John Sexton, and remember him saying that
>> Ansel would keep famous prints that had some small defect.  An 
>> unsuspecting
>> student would show up and ask for a critique - Ansel would study the print
>> and ask someone to bring him his Moonrise for comparison.  After a little
>> more study he would announce that he would never print again after seeing
>> the student's work, and rip the Moonrise to shreds.  How great would that
>> be?
>>
>> Ken Carney
>>
>>      
>    



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