Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hmm. I like some of HCB's pictures. I prefer Robert Frank's "The Americans" to HCB's "America in Passing" though. And one of the finest street photographers of all is a man named George Forss who assembled a portfolio of absolutely stunning proportions in silent obscurity until DDD discovered him and published a merest glimpse at his work in "New York, New York" about a dozen or so years ago. I happened to be friendly with the publisher and met George, looked through the incredible collection of photographs he has made. He's since returned to obscurity and continues to make his photographs. That HCB is canonized upsets me not at all, why should it? He did some good stuff and was lucky enough to be recognized and rewarded for it. So what? Wish it could happen to a couple of others I know who deserve it. Godfrey >I get a little upset when I see all the classic stuff overpriced (HCB = >Vincent vG minus the pain), and no homage paid to unrecognised masters of >the medium, who advance it, and sure could use the money. now.