Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > -- > 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