RE: [Leica] Re: Adams, Weston, and... Welch?

[Alan Ball <AlanBall@csi.com>]

Bruce,

You might add quite a few American photographers OF HIS GENERATION as well. 
The issues here are related to time. Those were times where using 
photography as a media for interprtations about landscapes could really be 
interpreted as a 'clinical' waste of time and talent. Looking back at this 
with 21st century eyes changes perspectives of course. Nothing to do with 
not having experienced cooking trout under 300 ft high trees. The same 
issues divided creators in litterature, painting and cinema. Those were the 
issues of the time. HCB and ALL the other social photographers decided to 
use photography as a tool contributing to the influence theongoing 
development of those issues. This is what the Leicas were best at helping 
realize. At the time.

Alan

On dimanche 21 mars 1999 21:21, Bruce Feldman [SMTP:brucef@waw.pdi.net] 
wrote:
> : [Leica] Re: Adams, Weston, and... Welch?
> To the contrary, HCB
> apparently felt that they were very talented photographers who were 
wasting
> their considerable talents at a time when they were so badly needed by
> humanity.  This is a question of taste and value, and I happen to agree 
with
> his assessment.  When I think of HCB and the other French photographers 
of
> his generation -- Boubat, Ronis, Isiz, Doisneau, Depardon, Charbonnier,
> Lartique, Riboud, etc. -- I find their work simply irresistable.  It had 
a
> human quality -- not an American quality or a European quality -- that is
> unmatched, according to my taste, compared to the cold, barren, clinical
> vistas of Adams or the beautiful art-class rock and nude exercises of
> Weston -- when their work is considered as a whole.