[Leica] Re: BD' students (was press winners)

[vintagebill at verizon.net (bill harting)]

BD, will these students be assigned do a pj project such as the Starbucks 
one your students did a couple of years ago? And what became of them 
(especially the unusually excellent one)? Did any go on in the field? (not 
that going on in the field is necessary).

bill h (who also did not know H C-B at their age)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B. D. Colen" <bd_colen@harvard.edu>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:40 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: world press winners 2006


> One, Norm, not only are the kids I teach light years beyond me in the
> things technical to which you refer, they are flat out brilliant in terms
> of raw intelligence.
> But no, had I named Nachtwey they'd have done no better - I showed War
> Photographer in the first class and not one of them had ever heard of him.
> As to how I screen. In fact, I let more in each year, and try not to keep
> kids out. Each year I've had a few kids with virtually no previous photo
> experience, and no obvious talent, and grade them not on the quality of 
> the
> work, but rather on the progress they make and initiative they show.
>
> As to the quiz - there was a range of questions designed to show me if 
> they
> had any photo backgound at all. All the results do is give me a way to 
> make
> cuts if I need to.
>
> All that said, I am far less sanquine than you about this generation. I 
> saw
> a new study yesterday indicating that 18 to I believe 29 year olds on
> average read - reading of any tpe - on average of 4 min per day. I'm glad
> they can modify cars, but...
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> On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:30:52 -0800 "Norm Aubin" <puff11@comcast.net> 
> wrote:
> "formal academic environment.  I
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