Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Totally false?? HCB and l'instant décisif
From: Alexey Merz <alexey@webcom.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 17:17:07 +0000

Dominique Pellissier wrote:

>HCB is not interested by people, but by a geometric picture 
>in which there are people.

Oh, hogwash. Look at HCB's photos of (to pick two among many examples)
the woman recognizing the informant who'd turned her in to the Nazis
and the photo of the woman in a crowd of people surrounding the Pope.

These photos have good geometries, but they are ABOUT people.

- -Alexey 
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