Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/05

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Subject: RE: [Leica] art, manual focus & other misunderstanding
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 09:23:16 -0500

At 03:54 PM 5/5/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Doisneau and HCB are both artists and witnesses of their times. HCB is 
>also a photojournalist.

And Cartier-Bresson would disagree with you. "I am a surrealist" is what he 
used to say.

And Photojournalism and art are not so far apart. What IS the opposite of 
art would be commercial work.

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

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