Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] great photographers
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 22:18:50 -0600

At 05:59 PM 3/4/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Besides, he has proven to himself and
>anyone that has tried to rep him in the commercial  or run-and-gun
>editorial world that he just doesn't fit.

Yep. I heard a story about his. He was shooting the Marlboro Man, and the 
art director kept telling him what to do. He said, "If you know so much, 
why aren't you shooting it?" And the A.D. said, "Good point." And fired 
him. :-)

Or something like that.

Bill Allard is my hero.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

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