Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]PMFJI = Pardon Me For Jumping In. A useful internet acronym dictionary is found at http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/ As to the quality of the prints, remember the old maxim that there's no accounting for taste. Plus, what I saw may have been work prints. Or the images may have been reprinted later for the reproductions in books. Or the reproductions may have enhanced the original prints. And so on and so forth. I have seen Smith prints in galleries that blew my socks off but I don't know who made them, or when. --Bob ==On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Vince Passaro <passaro.vince at gmail.com> wrote: > It's odd that there would be such radically opposed schools of thought on > his printing: I could understand "really great" versus "good but not > great...." ?But what we have is "great" versus "bad amateur." ?I'll have to > do a little more research on this matter, obviously. > > PS wha it means PMFJI ? > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Robert D. Baron <rbaron at > concentric.net>wrote: > >> PMFJI: My memory is not what it once may have been so maybe someone >> else ?who saw the exhibit can chime in: sometime between say 2000 and >> 2004 or so there was a major exhibit at the ICP in New York City of >> the Dream Street project and the walls were lined with Smith's prints. >> ?My current memory is that I was not at all impressed by the quality; >> they reminded me of my feeble attempts at printing when I was in high >> school. ?And its not like I've never seen a good print by a master >> printer..... >> >> --Bob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >