Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And you can buy all the Farm Security Administration photos from The Library of Congress. An amazing resource. How else would I have a real Walker Evans on the wall of my office? Marty On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote: > A local museum has a substantial collection of Gordon Parks. Once, the > director showed me one print, ans said that the backs of all the others > were > identical. Each bore the rubber stamp "Time-Life photo lab, negative number > xxxx" > > I believe you can still buy prints of their stuff, just as you can buy a > large number of prints from the NYT's collection. > > -----Original Message----- From: Howard Ritter > Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 5:33 PM > > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado > > Or, to give it the opposite spin, with respect to the thrust of the > conversation about photographers rather than printers, every minute spent > in > the darkroom is a minute not spent at the viewfinder. > > ?howard > > > On Dec 8, 2012, at 1:12 PM, "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote: > >> Looking back through history, there have been more highly regarded >> photographers who had others do their printing and processing. The near >> requirement that only the artist can print his own work is absurd. Every >> minute shooting is a minute not spent on perfecting his printing. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information