Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Magnum...
From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@home.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:11:00 -0700
References: <200201121416.JAA08448@cliff.concentric.net>

Yes George...me too... I have the book. Steve
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From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist@concentric.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Magnum...


> kididdoc@home.com (Steve Barbour)1/11/026:02 PM
> 
> > Magnum....icons of the 20th century. .... many great images by
> > great photographers.....
> 
> Just received the book, "New York September 11th, by Magnum
> Photographers", courtesy of Smart Papers. Quite powerful. The
> photographers discuss their experiences in the brief texts. 
> 
> Larry Towell was in town for a meeting at Magnum and didn't have
> "his" gear. Had "one small, 35mm completely automatic camera. S I
> tried to photograph. My camera didn't work. The green light was
> blinking, saying, 'I don't know what to focus on.'"
> 
> Gilles Peress text in its entirety, "I don't trust words. I trust
> pictures."
> 
> Susan Meiselas, "I grabbed two cameras, a Leica and Canon, one
> 28-105mm lens, and a few rolls of film < two few as it turned
> out."
> 
> It has been a while since a book of photographs has brought tears
> to my eyes - this one did.
> 
> George
> 
> 
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