Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >| Which is why I am always uneasy about the (let's be frank about it) >| fawning which goes on w.r.t. HCB or Salgado. Every time you see one >| of "their" images, you are really looking at the work of often unamed >| technicians. After all, any moron in monkey-cam-mode can click-click- >| click and strike heroic photographer-like poses... it takes a true >| visual artist however (working alone in a darkroom or with a scanner) >| to turn a B&W or colour negative into a final magnificent image. No, that is not true. I really is in the shooting that a great picture is formed. Playing in the darkroom is really cosmetic. Michael