Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]S.D. wrote: > From what I recall, Smith was a poor printer. Doing the printing himself > was more of an economic necessity than part of his photographic > avocation. He was a brilliant printer. In "W. Eugene Smith, The Camera as Conscience," John T. Hill pretty much sums it up: "His prints became legend, featuring impenetrable darks of blackness and ranging to clean linen whites. ...There were breathtaking in their beauty and difficulty to reproduce." In any case, regarding the Chaplin photo essay, he was gloomy about the essay as a whole, not his prints: http://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/john_edwin_mason_photogra/2010/02/eugene-smith-charlie-chaplin.html http://bit.ly/cOvg1X --John ****************************** John Edwin Mason, Photography: http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com Charlottesville and Cape Town