Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/22

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Subject: [Leica] URL: More HCB....
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 08:36:09 +0530
References: <53094550.9040808@threshinc.com>

Call them what you will, they are brilliant photographs!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:
>
> Having called him a Communist in the lead, the article is pretty silent
> about any examples, beyond the fact that he photographed poor people in 
> many
> countries. I just *loved* the comment from a reader named "NinthLegion":
>
> "I'm not sure that the politics of a photographer has anything to do with 
> it
> - though I'll admit communists generally stop down too much, Tories quite
> often under-expose, while fascists, lets be honest, always have difficulty
> in focusing in low-light portrait shots."
>
> To which "JemWallace" added:
> "Agreed: too much black and white. I think fascists have problems with
> shades of grey."
>
> If you'd like to actually see some pictures from the exhibit, see here,
> pop-up arrows are on the left and right of the picture to go forward and
> back:
> <http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303704304579380561990115336#1>
>
> --Peter :-)
>
>> LoL
>>
>>
>> The guardian discovers what everyone knew from the start ...
>>
>>
>> well ...
>>
>>
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>> Message du : 20/02/2014 20:46
>> De : "John McMaster " <john at mcmaster.co.nz>
>> A : "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Copie ? :
>> Sujet : [Leica] URL: More HCB....
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>>
>> http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/20/henri-cartier-bresson-exhibition-pompidou-centre-communist
>>
>> john
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