Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/04
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Carl,
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I may of course be mis-remembering (and I do not have the poem befor=
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me to check my memory), but I think the line you quoted may read mor=
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like, "Between the idea and the reality / Falls the shadow."
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I do not have a snowball's chance in hell of getting to Paris, and s=
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particularly for that reason, thanks much for the web site reference=
!
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Art Peterson
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"There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them=
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Casey Stengel
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Subject: [Leica] Les Americains en Paris
Author: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us at internet =
Date: 12/4/97 1:10 PM
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Dear LUG,
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If you're interested in seeing what a Leica can do, and at the same time =
affect the direction of a whole movement in contemporary photography, che=
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out Robert Frank's The Americans. Images that were published in his class=
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book are on display at the La Maison Europe=E9ne de la Photographie in Pa=
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until February 8. Their web page is http://www.pictime.fr/mep/default.htm=
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If anyone cares to rendezvous, I'll be in Paris with my assistant from =
January 27 thru February 2. Being able to see this show is serendipitous =
icing on the cake. I'm sure Tom Abrahamson is looking for an excuse to =
return to Paris.
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Carl Socolow
"Between the ideal and the reality lies the shadow." T.S. Eliot