Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve, Your photographs of Paris are for me in exactly the same league as those of Brassai, Ronis, Doisneau, HCB. Of course, they are/were famous and you are not, but that has nothing to do with the quality of the work. Nathan Steve Unsworth wrote: > Hmmm, my names been mentioned a couple of times and can I just say, > without a hint of false modesty, that I don't think I'm worthy of being > put into the company of the others mentioned. > > Then again, perhaps I should print off the emails, go to HCBs place on > rue de Rivoli and let him know that people have been saying he's as good > as I am ;-) Perhaps not. > > My favourites would be (today, the list could be different tomorrow) > > McCullin > Salgado > Nachtwey > Boubat > W Eugene Smith > Atget > Capa > HCB > > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Nathan > Wajsman > Sent: 11 February 2003 06:28 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Favorite Photographers > > > I suspect my answer will vary slightly depending on the day, phase of > the moon etc. But as of this morning, it would be, in no particular > order: > > - Henri Cartier-Bresson > - Gary Winogrand > - Charlie Waite > - Martin Parr > - Ted Grant > - Steve Unsworth > - John Brownlow > - Fulvio Roiter > - Stefan Arczynski (a Polish photographer whom I discovered during my > trip there over Christmas) > - Viggo Rivad (the grand old man of Danish photography) > > Nathan > > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2003.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html