Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 1/26/01 6:38 PM, Martin Howard at howard.390@osu.edu wrote: > I realize I'm going to get thoroughly publically roasted for admitting this > -- especially by Johnny Deadman -- but I don't think Atget's photos do work. > They only work because they are a historical record, because we recognize > significance as a result of subsequent social change, but as photographs in > their own right, I find many of them quite bland, banal, and boring. Oh, Martin, Martin, Martin... > The > Eggelston of the 1910s, in black and white. You just said exactly WHY i like them. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com