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Subject: [Leica] Dream Street in Pittsburgh
From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 22:29:56 -0800

I saw the W Eugene Smith exhibit at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh 
yesterday. Now I'm back in California trying to make sense of it all. 
Because I am more experienced as a writer than as a photographer, I dealt 
with my reactions to it by writing about it rather than by running out to 
take pictures. If you don't mind the religious context of my essay about 
Smith's work, you can see what I had to say about it here:

http://anglicansonline.org/resources/essays/reid/together.html

Although I wrote this for a religious audience, I think its core message, 
about virtual communities changing cities for the better, is quite 
applicable to the LUG.

In the essay I mention the book rather than the exhibit because I think the 
book will be accessible to more people. The prints hanging on the wall are 
amazing beyond measure. That man knew how to take pictures and he knew how 
to print them. I think that if he'd had Photoshop 6 available to him, he'd 
be alive today.

Brian

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