Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/12

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Subject: [Leica] Gene Smith at the Phoenix Art Museum
From: robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 17:34:35 -0500
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==On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Richard Man
<richard at richardmanphoto.com>wrote:

Went to the PAM briefly yesterday. It's a huge building with multiple
> exhibit areas and it took me a bit of time to find the Gene Smith exhibit.
> This is the first time I have seen Smith's prints in person. Gene is my
> hero and as usual in this sort of thing, seeing "live" prints is another
> experience all together vs. seeing prints from books or magazine. It would
> appear that Gene made his prints quite a bit darker than the ones
> reproduced by the Life magazine.
>
> The exhibit has a selection from 4 of his photo essays: the Country Doctor,
> the Nurse Midwife, the Man of Mercy and Minamata, plus a few images from
> his earliest work on the Pacific war.
>
> Definitely worth a trip to see the exhibit if you are around the area.
>
>

Is it worth a pilgrimage?

Isn't that where the Garry Winogrand archive is?

--Bob


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