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Subject: [Leica] Re: world press winners 2006
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Sat Feb 11 09:10:20 2006
References: <C013629D.C365%bdcolen@comcast.net> <D943CD76-72A7-4E6F-8E69-B9A7BC0D5B27@cox.net>

Perhaps they were all wishing it was Sunday and they were out of there.




> How's this for depressing? Thursday night I handed out a "pop quiz"  to 
> the
> first meeting of my MIT doc photo/pj class. It was ridiculously  simple, 
> and
> was designed to give me a way to throw out anyone I needed to throw  out
> because I always have too many kids sign up. One question was:
>
> 2. Who coined the phrase ?the decisive moment??
>             A. Susan Sontag
>             B. Mathew Brady
>             C. Henri Cartier-Bresson
>             D. None of the above
> Only THREE of 19 MIT students got it right - and I think they were 
> guessing,

they would have done better by guessing....

or maybe they did guess by picking the only one that they had ever
heard of...

Sontag...

(I fear that's the way we elect our leaders)

:-)

Steve


> because not one of the kids later acknowledged being familiar with  HCB's
> work. Further, NOT ONE knew what Magnum was. Oh, most frequent  guess on
> question 2? Susan Sontag. :-(
>
> Fookin kids! :-(
>
> B. D.
>
>
> On 2/11/06 9:37 AM, "Craig Schroeder" <craig@craigschroeder.com>  wrote:
>
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Like I said , it's far more important to be where these events  happen,
>>>> otherwise you never have the opportunities to capture the pictures.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've always thought the phrase: "f8 and be there" summed this up  rather
>>> nicely.
>>>
>>> Emanuel
>>>
>>>
>> At my age, it's, F-what and be where?
>>
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In reply to: Message from bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Re: world press winners 2006)
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