Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kari Eloranta wrote: > > Harrison wrote on Lanting: > > >he shoots no more than 6 rolls a day. Very selective in what he > >shoots. He said he did not like to look at bad photos and looking > at >his own bad photos depressed him so he shot fewer photos > waiting >for the right moments > > And results he gets! Just saw the book "Eye to Eye" a few days ago. > Stunning. I'm inclined to think that at those very close encounters > that he makes he coldn't even use motor because of the noise. > > It's funny people buy into volume shooting stories. Some people > think that e.g. Salgado shoots enormous amounts. He must, how could > he otherwise have so much material as to quit Magnum and set up own > agency. From what I hear he shoots 2-3 rolls per day on longer > trips. Well, maybe you have to be a grandmaster to get to that level > of confidence... > > Kari I heard Art Wolf speak at a seminar once and told about shooting 500 rolls in 3 weeks in Africa. He dropped all 500 at lab on way from airport, picked up 250 in the morning, the rest later in the day and had looked through all 500 by that evening and had some photos labeled, catalogued and off to publishers by the next day (he was a staff of 6, BTW). He was working on 15 book project simultaneously. Everywhere he turned was a photo op. As for Salgado, he is now represented by Contact Press Images, at least according to their web site. Maybe he got wind of Getty's current entreaties to buy Magnum and wanted to get his images out to safety. I tried to get Franz Lanting down to speak to an ASMP meeting in San Diego while he was going to be here anyway for another purpose, but without at least a $2000 fee (not permissible for members to charge for speaking to other members) he wasn't interested. After a couple brief conversations on the telephone I decided I really liked his photographs and applaud his pushing the creative envelope. But his arrogance and condecension was a bit more than I could abide. Donal Philby San Diego