[Leica] URL: W Eugene Smith

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Which advice he took himself, if I remember right. Larkin was also a jazz aficionado, and I still have a couple of volumes of his jazz reviews and columns, which make excellent reading for dipping into, once in a while.

As for Bill Smith, such self destructive behaviour is not unknown in borderline geniuses, is it, and it maybe the root cause of the artistic power of his photographs - which remain obvious to this day!

If I ever get an actual original print of any of our greats in photography, it would be one of his.....

Cheers
Jayanand


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> On 08-Aug-2017, at 03:22, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
>> On 06/08/2017 15:15, John McMaster wrote:
>> https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/aug/06/w-eugene-smith-photographer-record-everything
>> 
> Jaysus John, thanks for that link. Poor Mr Smith, he certainly had problems.
> 
> Hello. Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline. If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly.
> 
> As the redoubtable Philip Larkin wrote... and apologies for the anglo saxon...
> 
> They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
> They may not mean to, but they do.
> They fill you with the faults they had
> And add some extra, just for you.
> 
> But they were fucked up in their turn
> By fools in old-style hats and coats,
> Who half the time were soppy-stern
> And half at one another’s throats.
> 
> Man hands on misery to man.
> It deepens like a coastal shelf.
> Get out as early as you can,
> And don’t have any kids yourself.
> 
> Douglas
> 
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