Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:11 AM 6/2/98 -0400, you wrote: >of photos taken by Bill Burke as part of the Kentucky bicentennial >documentary project. I wouldn't call the photos technically outstanding. In >fact, some are downright underexposed, poorly presented. But they are >POWERFUL photos that take you directly into the lives of the people being There's a book "Powerful Days" on one photographer's coverage of the Civil Rights movement in the U.S. in the 60s. Anyone familiar with pictures from that era will recognize many of his pictures that have become icons of that struggle. That is one powerful set of pictures. Charles Moore is a superb photographer, and he used Leicas. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Ever wonder how the guy that drives the snowplow gets to work in the morning?