Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff Spirer wrote: > >I think Mike J. was/is on the right track. More than a few local > >contributors seem to love Leicas but have little regard for > photography. Go > >figure. And if you follow the threads you'll realize that Bernard is > one of > >our dearest and most consistent trollers. You're too kind, Rob. > Regardless of Bernard, who I am not familiar with, I stick to my > original > premise. There is no "golden list" of photographers that must be > loved to > love photography. I agree that many people love their cameras far > more > than photography, but that is irrelevant of specific artists. I never said anything about Frank; only about the taste of the common man: Spice Girls, Jerry Springer etc. I'm not into the usual ideation of the common man; one of the fallacies of the 20th century. The Frank-tangent was something Mike J. erroneously attributed to me. Bernard