RE: [Leica] Eisie

[Buzz Hausner <Buzz@marianmanor.org>]

I must demur.   Eisenstadt may not have been the most talented photographer
to stand behind a Leica in terms of composition and zone system tonal
quality, but he produced a truly remarkable record of so many events that
shaped the lives of all of us and will continue to shape the lives of
generations yet unborn.  I do not feel that it is the photojournalists
"duty" to produce museum quality images (not that I am against that goal).
It is the PJs task to present to us a vision of events of great and lesser
importance.  Eisenstadt, for whatever reason...his charming personality, the
backing of Henry Luce, was present at an enormous range of momentous events,
for which he richly deserves praise if not veneration.  Our record of the
Twentieth Century would not be so full if it hadn't been for Eisenstadt.

	Buzz Hausner

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From: John Brownlow [mailto:john@pinkheadedbug.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 1:59 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Eisie


on 6/29/00 1:45 PM, Robert Appleby and Sue Darlow at laintal@tin.it wrote:

>>>> 
> Sorry, but with the exception of a handful of images, I think that
> Eisenstadt was, basically, a reasonably talented celebrity photographer
who
> got VERY far on a wonderful personality. Does that make him or his work
> bad?
> <<<
> amen. I could never see him as photojournalist of the century, except due
> to the way he got around. But then if your career spans 60 years or so,
you
> do. Plus he seems to have been a number one social climber.

Make that three of us. His photography does nothing whatever for me. Kind of
photojournalism for people who don't like photojournalism, if you see what I
mean.

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