Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is sadly a fact of artistic life, many painters have the same life of poverty only to have talentless dealers making fortunes out of their work long after they are dead. Frank On 9 Apr 2008, at 12:26, "R. Clayton McKee" <leica@rcmckee.com> wrote: > Quoth the Nathan Wajsman : > >> In Weston's time the development of lenses and cameras was very >> slow, so there was much less need and possibility to buy new stuff. > > There's also that after he quit doing retouched portraiture, about > the time he moved to Mexico, Weston spent most of the rest of his > life living hand-to-mouth; he records in his Daybooks on several > occasions that he had to pawn lenses to pay the rent so as not to be > evicted. Artistically he was a great success, but financially he > seems to have bounced back and forth between disaster and crisis for > most of his working life. Solvency was a sometime thing -- extra > money for gear was almost always nonexistent. > > > > -- > > > R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com > Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com > P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 > Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information