Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/13

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Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] Re: it DOESN'T work well for leica!
From: Bmceowen@aol.com
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:02:46 EDT

In a message dated 6/13/00 10:34:48 AM, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes:

>Right...But Joe...I, for one, would rather see Eugene Smith's iconic -
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>incredibly manipulated - "portrait" if the mad Haitian woman with the
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>illuminated eye sockets than look at every "great portrait" Karsh ever
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>properly illuminated and shot....:-)


I like them both. In fact, you've mentioned two of my favorites -- although 
their approaches were quite different. At least their approaches APPEAR to be 
different. Some of Smith's "documentary" stuff appears rather LIT to me . . . 

Bob (doesn't often see light like Smith "found" ) McEowen