Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/18

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Subject: RE: [Leica] David Bailey -- a dissenting voice
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:19:30 -0500

Two things here - One, the best work if often that work which seems the
simplest -

And, two, in regard to the fact that the images of Marshalls which one sees
are the selects from what ever number of rolls:

That's true of any photographer. And I recall being told - about 40 years
ago - by an editor at LIFE, that from LIFE's point of view a photographer
was doing well if he or she had a single "keeper" - an image that the
photographer really wanted to see printed - from each roll.

B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Rolfe
Tessem
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 4:59 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] David Bailey -- a dissenting voice




- --On Monday, March 18, 2002 8:58 PM +0100 Hans-Peter.Lammerich@t-online.de
wrote:

> This is what I feel about e.g. Jim Marshall.
>
> On the other hand, I would be a happy amateur photographer if I could
> achieve the same quality in my own pictures from my own, private
> environment. Instead of celebreties I would create photos of my friends,
> colleques, with little meaning to the world, but some importance for my
> friends and me. The intriguing thing with Jim Marshall is that his work
> looks so simple, achieved without a fortune worth of equipment or a
> studio.
>
> Yes, I could do the same with my small bag of Leica gear, if I had a tad
> more of talent.

Don't forget, you're seeing the selects from 20,000 rolls of Tri-X.

There, doesn't that make you feel better ;-).

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Rolfe Tessem
rolfe@ldp.com
Lucky Duck Productions, Inc.
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