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Subject: [Leica] Re: world press winners 2006
From: bd_colen at harvard.edu (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sun Feb 12 04:41:20 2006
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No Don, it doesn' mean that at all. These are MIT students, not J school or 
art school students. And of course most of them ae taking it because they 
think it's going to be easy - little do they know. :-)
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On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:21:31 -0500 Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:
"B.D.
"It just means that pj is a dead/dying occupation.  Top of the list young
"adults who have not acknowledged one of the movers and shakers of
"photography.   I might have asked about a current major
"photographer(Natchaway or your friend of The Big Dig) to get a feel whether
"they were interested in the field or just looking for an easy credit. :)
"
"Brian's daughter is at MIT.  If you recall he was off list two years ago
"driving her and the stuff to MIT.  Wellesly?, hahahaha, you should know
"Brian better than that.
"
"Don
"don.dory@gmail.com
"
"
"On 2/11/06, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:
">
"> 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,
"> 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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