[Leica] Erwin Blumenfeld in the NYer - Mark

[philippe.amard]

Dilettante is not far from Dandy - HCB could afford that I think - and  
an amateur because he loved his craft and didn't actually need the  
cash either.

As a native speaker, I would use both terms as HCB did.

Amities
Philippe


Le 18 sept. 14 à 02:16, Mark Rabiner a écrit :

> Also HCB Henri Cartier-Bresson who I'm reading now and Alfred  
> Stieglitz also
> held up this "amateur"  term as an ideal instead of the opposite.
> Also the related term " dilettante" is used as a compliment instead  
> of the
> opposite by these guys (wh0 may have never met) and their  
> followers.  It
> gets confusing. Part of it may be that these major arbiters of  
> taste, style
> and technique were born into so much money that they could piss off  
> anybody
> they wanted to and still pay the rent at the end of the month. They  
> just
> didn't need your business. They just didn't have to care.!!
>
>
> On 9/16/14 6:29 PM, "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Phil  I like his quote:
>
> "I was an amateur—I am an amateur—and I
>> intend to stay an amateur. To me an
> amateur photographer is one who is in love
>> with taking pictures, a free
> soul who can photograph what he likes and who
>> likes what he photographs. By
> that definition I am an amateur, so that is the
>> definition that I accept."
>
> Tina
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Phil Swango
>> <pswango at att.net> wrote:
>
>> I saw this on Twitter and took a look.  Great
>> fashion work IMO.
>>
>>
>> http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/erwin-blumenfelds-studio
>>
>> You
>> may have to be a subscriber to view but I'm not sure about that.
>>
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