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Subject: [Leica] NY Times Magazine today---Paolo Pellegrin
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Sun Feb 8 19:02:04 2009
References: <20090208183027.54CB4824@resin11.mta.everyone.net>

It would seem so, from the reading material. Though, you'd never know  
it the way they parade around town (LA), with their "pure journalism"  
attitude.
sd


On Feb 8, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote:

> I just finished reading a book about Magnum, and it would suggest  
> that you are wrong. Magnum shooters had the freedom to pursue their  
> own work, but they also had to pay the bills and there was plenty  
> of public relations stuff done from time to time
>
> Cheers
>
> --- s.dimitrov@charter.net wrote:
>
> From: Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] NY Times Magazine today---Paolo Pellegrin
> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 13:20:44 -0800
>
> There was a time when Magnum photographers didn't do public relations
> imagery.
> Oh, well!
> sd
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Ken Carney wrote:
>
>> This guy's worse than I am at keeping the camera level.  At least
>> these
>> reproduced fairly well.  I thought the one of Mickey Rourke and his
>> dog was
>> the best.  The others seemed pretty ordinary, IMHO.  Speaking of
>> strange
>> photos, there is a b&w spread in the February 2 New Yorker by
>> someone named
>> Platon.  All white backgrounds, tops of heads cut off etc.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
>>> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Lehrer
>>> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 11:16 AM
>>> To: Leica Users Group; Leica Users Group
>>> Subject: [Leica] NY Times Magazine today---Paolo Pellegrin
>>>
>>>
>>> LUGers,
>>>
>>> What is your reaction to the series of  semi "candid' photos of
>>> Great
>>> Performers, done by
>>> Paolo Pellegrin?  (Maybe with a Leica) They are in today's NY Times
>>> Magazine.
>>>
>>> Since these are photos, rather than the drawings of Obamas People,
>>> they
>>> should elicit more
>>> cogent responses from you photographers.
>>>
>>> Jerry
>>>
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