Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/07

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Subject: [Leica] Ansel
From: mak at teleport.com (mak@teleport.com)
Date: Mon Mar 7 08:58:51 2005

In days BA (before Ansel) there WERE no boring photo calendars...



I'd be happy to have a body of work so (almost) universally revered,
I'll tell you that. :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Alastair Firkin
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 7:20 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] Ansel


Well, I'd be happy to have a body of work so boring. These things are 
just a matter of taste in the end.

On 07/03/2005, at 9:27 AM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> That's fine, if you consider Ansel a Saint. I don't. I consider him 
> one of the great darkroom masters of all time, and a wonderful 
> photographic technician/innovator (the Zone system, etc.). But when it

> comes to photography per se, I'm in that minority that consider him a 
> purveyor of boring calendar art. ;-)


Alastair

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