Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:22 AM 11/26/97 +0100, you wrote: >His pictures are famous, and - usually - Erich Salomon is said to be >the first modern photojournalist. According to Cartier-Bresson Andre Kertesz, working with box cameras in 1914, was actually the first photographer to really shoot in the style that came to be know as street photography, and gave birth to Photojournalism. I know a lot of other historians who would say the same thing. But Solomon was the one first cover "policital" issues. And use a high-aperture lens on a portable camera. So in that sense, you're partly right. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.