Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin Howard wrote: I realize I'm going to get thoroughly publicly 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. The Eggleston of the 1910s, in black and white. _____________________________________________________________________ Atget's photographs have stood the test of time. You do not judge them. They judge you. Dave Jenkins