Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Agreed, Pierce is one of the last of the great, old school, photography writers still working. I believe he had four articles in the 1975 Leica Manual and wrote for Pop Photo, when it still mattered, for years. He answers email from fans too! Mike D - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Johnston" <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 11:54 PM Subject: [Leica] Pierce is heard from > Pierce wrote to me just now and said, among other things, > > >>> > Would you tell Gerry Walden > that Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley and Tom McAvoy were very well known > photographers in their day - and that they deserved their public > recognition. Every geriatric reader of the, now, long gone American picture > magazines knows their work. Just as Gerry knows the names of some the > wonderful photographers, like Grace Robertson, whose pictures didn't cross > the Atlantic. > <<< > > Pierce is one of the great Socratic gadflies of photography, an historian, > observer, appreciator, keeper of the flame, and conscience. > > You can check out his column "Nuts and Bolts" at the site Dirck Halstead > founded: > > http://digitaljournalist.org/columns.htm > > I might suggest that Luggers would enjoy sampling this one: > > http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9910/nutsandbolts.htm > > How soon we forget, > > --Mike > >