Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/05

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Subject: Re: Vs: [Leica] Ansel Adams/John Wimberley WAS Mapplethorpe
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 04:06:43 -0500

Johnny Deadman jotted down the following:

> His best known image 'descending angel' is bizarrely atypical of most of his
> work and only became well known because it was used as a book cover.

He should take a hint from that: "Descending Angel" is interesting, while
the other stuff my eyes just floated over.  Zone-system, LF-clichés.  I have
to look at Angel for a long while: it is water in the background, amazing
how the dress and the water seem to flow into each other, the curve of the
foot extending...

M.

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