Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Eugene Smiths problems
From: "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:23:14 +0200
References: <m3bs8av5s6.fsf@jeremys.iron> <v04011701b97be65ccda0@[193.249.88.124]> <000701c24123$59031430$7f567450@rob> <002101c24137$e555b000$633f4d18@gv.shawcable.net>

Ted, I totally agree with your assessment of WES, both the extraordinary
power of what he achieved and his extraordinary ego.

I'll just add: when I first picked up a camera in the early 80's, there were
two people I wanted to be: HCB and WES. In the end, of course, I became RA.
Oh well... ;-)

R.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Eugene Smiths problems


>
> Rob Appleby wrote:
> > In the end, they're just pictures. I wouldn't take anything
photographic -
> > or any photographer - as seriously as WES took himself and his own work.
> The
> > stories were worth doing, sure.<<<<
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> Operative phrase:
> >>I wouldn't take anything photographic - or any photographer - as
seriously
> as WES took himself and his own work.<<<
>
> He was one of my "guiding lights" in the very early days and probably as
> influential as anyone in my approach to documentary photography and the
> photo essays I shot for the National Film Board of Canada.
>
> snipped
>
> ted
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Replies: Reply from Dan C <leicaman@sympatico.ca> (RE: [Leica] Eugene Smiths problems - and a report of an epiphany.)
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Message from bennett <3bennett@wanadoo.fr> (RE: [Leica] Eugene Smiths problems)
Message from "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com> (Re: [Leica] Eugene Smiths problems)
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