Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It doesn't strike me as that strange. When a group of dentists meet at the bar, do they talk about teeth? In most professional social places, messes and such, "shop" talk is frowned upon if not forbidden. P. ******* Paul Hardy Carter www.paulhardycarter.com +44 (0)20 7871 7553 ******* On 2 Apr 2006, at 18:40, Jeffery Smith wrote: > This has probably been mentioned before, but a book I'm reading about > the > history of Magnum indicates that HCB and the other founders of Magnum > sat > around in cafes and talking about everything except photography (to > talk > about photography would be pretentious, according to HCB). They usually > talked about politics. Of course, back then Fascism, Communism, > Socialism, > and Nazism were relatively new innovations in the way they were being > applied.