Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/13
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Hi Eric!
That's a great story and I believe it. When I was
a student at RIT, a classmate got a chance to follow
HCB around on an assignment. I got to hear W. G.
Smith talk to the class imprompt one afternoon,
Minor White was just leaving for MIT. The fire
hadn't happened yet at the G. Eastman house and
you could still ask to look at the original prints from
their storage.
Sorry about rambling on, but I originally mentioned
HCB because I read somewhere that he shot 50,000
rolls during his career. I could have this wrong.
Cheers,
Rich Lahrson
Berkeley, California
tripspud@transbay.net
Eric Welch wrote:
> Not true about HCB. He could be very economical with film. My old,
> tired story comes from former editor of Epoca magazine (Italy's LIFE
> magazine) who hired Cartier-Bresson to do a photo essay on Portugal. He
> took his Leica and two rolls of Ektachrome with him. And when Guido
> Mattoni (the editor) looked through his film, he said he could have
> used 70 or the 72 frames in the magazine. It's a rare photographer who
> can get that kind of success rate.
>
> Jim Brandenberg comes to mind...
>
> On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 09:57 PM, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>
> >> Frank, Gary W. or HCB.
>
> Eric Welch
> Carlsbad, CA
> http://www.jphotog.com
>
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> martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape
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