Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B. D. Colen wrote >I'm sure Ms. B was a wonderful person who will be >dearly missed by all who knew her. But being a >believer that one speaks of those who are dead as you >would have spoken of them when they were alive - I'm >afraid the sited Life cover only goes to show that >it's not what skills you have, or what you are really >capable of accomplishing, but who you know that >counts: What got this photo onto the cover of Life was >either Ms. Berenson's connect to the late Tony >Perkins, or perhaps some access she had to C.S - Not >photographic skill. > > Mr. Colen . . . The Life cover was the only photograph that I could find on the internet on short notice. I did not intend it to be a demonstration of the quality or lack thereof of her work . . . merely as a reminder that she once existed and that she had a professional connection with photography. It is always good to know that there are plainspoken people like yourself in the world. In this particular context I would not have felt it necessary to make the comment you made above, about "Ms B" or anyone else, but then it is clear that you and I are by no means the same person. Daniel Bowdoin