[Leica] Re: HCB dies

[Summicron1 at aol.com (Summicron1@aol.com)]

miss him him?   Why?

It's not as if he came over for dinner every thurday, is it? And he hasn't 
shot in years. Did he owe you money?

Of course not.

And anyway, if you miss a photographer as great as he when he dies, you miss 
the whole point of his career, which was to preserve for the future his 
vision 
of the world, his art, his meaning, his beliefs and dreams.

I have a book of his work downstairs and look at it every time I need 
inspiration. May I suggest you do the same?

You will never miss him then. He is still there.

His era is far from dead, too. Why does everyone say that? What a stupid 
concept.

Go take pictures. Look at life, look at people, quit worrying about which 
lens you have that has 8 elements and was made in midland, and start 
worrying 
where the damn thing is pointed. Quit looking at your lens and start looking 
at 
light, at people, at situations, at composition. 

>From what I can gather, that's all HCB did.

c trentelman
In a message dated 8/4/04 7:42:47 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes:


> 
> I, like many others here will miss him. I am glad to have a nice
> collection of his pictures in books, including "The Decisive Moment."
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