Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Elitism and the PRO
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 22:21:37 +0200

Yes - what can I say - interesting. I=B4m just a semi-pro, well - was.
Somehow I lost my interest but it is coming back. Raimo

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> From: Alan Hull <hull@vaggeryd.mail.telia.com>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Elitism and the PRO
> Date: 26. toukokuuta 1998 7:55
>=20
> > Fr=E5n: Raimo Korhonen=20
> >=20
> > InterestingI And you are not even talking about photographers as
> artists?
> > Raimo
> > ----------
>=20
> Raimo, that's because I consider everyone an artist, photographer or
> not.  Simply the ability to appreciate beauty in its natural form nee=
ds
> an artistic outlook.  There are people of course who think that a
> person is an artist only if he can translate that natural beauty into=
 a
> form nobody but an Emperor with no clothes can understand. =20
>=20
> BTW the point I was really making was that Leica, being so expensive =
is
> not for the young photographer just starting out, but for the older
> more established PRO (gee whiz I hate that word) that earned his loot
> when times were "gooder".
>=20
> Alan Hull