Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/21

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Why street photos?
From: "Tim Atherton" <timphoto@nt.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:32:11 -0600

Okay - who speaks good French?

"Images a la sauvette" (couldn't get an accent on the a) - published in
English as The Decisive Moment.

Tim A

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Eric Welch
> Sent: September 21, 1999 3:35 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; Leica Users digest
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Why street photos?
>
>
> At 06:53 PM 9/21/99 +0100, Johnny Deadman wrote:
> >This also has HCB's introduction from
> >THE DECISIVE MOMENT in it, I think (what a stupid title, by the
> way...HCB is
> >much more about the indecisive moment, which the original French title
> >implies).
>
> What do you mean? What is the original French title, and what
> does it mean,
> exactly. Considering the talk for years before and after that using that
> very word - Decisive - and long treatises on the subject, this comment
> seems to me to border on the absurd.
>
> Eric Welch
> St. Joseph, MO
>
> http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
>
> Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
>