Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:15 AM 4/21/98 -0400, you wrote: >Anyone who is discriminating about music will love certain things and hate >other things--and in some cases even hate them with a passion. Art lovers have I'm with Mike. One doesn't have to like everything, or say that something else is "bad" just because one doesn't like it. I HATE rap and alanis morriset, or whoever. Elevator music makes my skin crawl. Tchaikovsky's March Slav with a xylophone and saxophone with Mitch Miller's choir humming in the background just doesn't do it for me, no matter how soft it is! I don't like Gary Winogrand, Helmut Newton, Witkin, most of Mapplethorps's work, or photojournalists who "set up" their pictures. But I like Duane Michals, Kertesz, Ansel Adams, Steichen (now there's a pair!) Natchwey, Minor White and Gene Smith (he set things up, but that was before photojournalism eithics were mature), Sam Abell, Bill Allard, Ernst Haas, Eli Reed, Alex Webb, Jim Stanfield... That's quite an eclectic group, but it works for me! And a bunch of them were Leica users. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch I exist as I am - that is enough. - - Walt Whitman