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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re cropping dilema
From: tripspud <tripspud@transbay.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:10:47 -0700
References: <006601c3578c$3e52d640$540110ac@ccasony01>

Hi BD,

       When HCB started photographing with the early Leica, the
word 'photojournalist' was unknown.  I think the term was first
used in the '50s.

Cheers,

Rich Lahrson
Berkeley, California
tripspud@transbay.net

bdcolen wrote:

> Cartier-Bresson was not really a "photojournalist -" he was a fine art
> photographer who took on some photojournalism assignments. Never forget
> the story about Capa telling HCB to call himself a photojournalist
> because if he called himself a surrealist photographer no one would ever
> hire him. :-)
> 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 Peterson
> Arthur G NSSC
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:34 PM
> To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Re cropping dilema
>
>                 Eric is right, of course. In terms of this
> cropping/editing/retouching debate, there's a world of difference
> between reportage and fine art.  A journalist, either photographic or in
> writing, has a basic purpose quite different from that of a novelist or
> fine arts photographer, and so he operates under a set of rules that the
> artist can safely ignore.  That is not to say, however, that what a
> "photojournalist" like Cartier-Bresson created cannot be fine art;
> obviously it is.
>
>                 Art Peterson
>                 Alexandria, Virginia
>
>                 -----Original Message-----
>                 From:   Eric Welch [mailto:eric@jphotog.com]
>                 Sent:   Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:48 AM
>                 To:     leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>                 Subject:        Re: [Leica] Re cropping dilema
>
>                 I think he was referring to news writers.
>
>                 Novelists are a whole different animal. Making things up
> is their
>                 stock-in-trade.
>
>                 On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 08:55  AM, Tim Atherton
> wrote:
>
>                 > You mean like a novelist? (aren't they writers too?).
>
>                 Eric Welch
>                 Carlsbad, CA
>                 http://www.jphotog.com
>
>                 The Four States of Santa Claus:
>
>                 1: You believe in Santa Claus.
>                 2: You don't believe in Santa Claus.
>                 3: You are Santa Claus.
>                 4: You look like Santa Claus.
>
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