Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the URL. Amazing and incredibly good just doesn't describe this man's work! Stupendous! Regards, Greg B. D. Colen wrote: >The UNC Chapel Hill library has William Gedney's journals, writings, books - >and all his prints, contact sheets, and negs - and there are countless >photos on-line that can be browsed through...The work is incredibly >good....I would recommend that anyone interested try starting here.. >http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/gedney/books/bd03/ > >This is a dummy - with photos - for a book Gedney put together, but never >published, called 31 Photographs, 1968...If you want inspiration, this is >the place to go... > >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 Rob Appleby >Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 3:42 PM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Weekly Submission > > >BD - my thoughts exactly - although the wife of two weeks was his new >girlfriend in my version. >R. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 9:21 PM >Subject: RE: [Leica] Weekly Submission > > >>On the other hand, the man on the right could be an AA member who has left >>his besotted gang of friends on the left, and is standing thinking, 'Damn! >>Can't those jerks ever have fun without getting smashed?' as he waits for >>his gorgeous wife of two weeks, whom he adores madly, to come pick him up. >> >>No Noir.:-) >> >>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 John Bohner >>Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 3:02 PM >>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>Subject: Re: [Leica] Weekly Submission >> >> >>Re Bill Clough's PAW >>http://www.leica-gallery.net/wccjr/image-30920.html >>I like the image just as it is as it turns the imagination free. >> >>Obviously the man on the right is depressed and a bit drunk. >>He is staring at a reflection in the water at his feet. >>It is of a half dressed woman combing her hair in the window >>of the 2nd floor apartment across the street. >>Her inverted image has started him thinking of his youth in >>Amsterdam as a photographer's assistant lugging a >>view camera to the more notorious districts of the city. >>Little did he know then, he would become a serious Leica addict, >>spending his meager pension on folding lens hoods for ancient >>elmarits and eating his cat's food. >>The people to the left are laughing, sharing an digital camera's >>image of their party in the restaurant they have just left. >>Yes, film noir, it is. >> >>John B >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html