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Subject: [Leica] Photographic treasures from Hispanic Society of America
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:09:05 +1000
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Certainly appears that it would be an amazing body of work to see live or in
a good quality book.

Cheers
Geoff

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On 24 August 2011 20:01, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Went to a photo exhibition yesterday that really impressed me. It was from
> a collection of photos of Spain commissioned by the Hispanic Society of
> America during the first 2-3 decades of the 20th century. I had never heard
> of the Society (founded by Archer Milton Huntington in New York in 1908, a
> rich guy with an interest in the country) nor of most of the photographers.
> The one whose work particularly impressed me was Ruth Matilda Anderson
> (1893-1983), whose photographs of people in 1920s Spain in my view is AT
> LEAST on par with the best work by Dorothea Lange and the other FSA
> photographers. A small taste is here (sorry, in Spanish only):
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> http://www.uclm.es/ceclm/fotografia_hispanic/fotografos/matilda_anderson.htm
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> For me anyway, her photos were a revelation.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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