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Subject: Re: [Leica] Amazing photo treasure trove...
From: "Greg J. Lorenzo" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:55:59 -0600
References: <MBBBJHIBKCKEAEOKKBPOGEMIEDAA.bdcolen@earthlink.net>

Thanks for the URL.

Amazing and incredibly good just doesn't describe this man's work!

Stupendous!

Regards,

Greg


B. D. Colen wrote:

>The UNC Chapel Hill library has William Gedney's journals, writings, books -
>and all his prints, contact sheets, and negs - and there are countless
>photos on-line that can be browsed through...The work is incredibly
>good....I would recommend that anyone interested try starting here..
>http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/gedney/books/bd03/
>
>This is a dummy - with photos - for a book Gedney put together, but never
>published, called 31 Photographs, 1968...If you want inspiration, this is
>the place to go...
>
>B. D.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Rob Appleby
>Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 3:42 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Weekly Submission
>
>
>BD - my thoughts exactly - although the wife of two weeks was his new
>girlfriend in my version.
>R.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 9:21 PM
>Subject: RE: [Leica] Weekly Submission
>
>
>>On the other hand, the man on the right could be an AA member who has left
>>his besotted gang of friends on the left, and is standing thinking, 'Damn!
>>Can't those jerks ever have fun without getting smashed?' as he waits for
>>his gorgeous wife of two weeks, whom he adores madly, to come pick him up.
>>
>>No Noir.:-)
>>
>>B. D.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John Bohner
>>Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 3:02 PM
>>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>>Subject: Re: [Leica] Weekly Submission
>>
>>
>>Re Bill Clough's PAW
>>http://www.leica-gallery.net/wccjr/image-30920.html
>>I like the image just as it is as it turns the imagination free.
>>
>>Obviously the man on the right is depressed and a bit drunk.
>>He is staring at a reflection in the water at his feet.
>>It is of a half dressed woman combing her hair in the window
>>of the 2nd floor apartment across the street.
>>Her inverted image has started him thinking of his youth in
>>Amsterdam as a photographer's assistant lugging a
>>view camera to the more notorious districts of the city.
>>Little did he know then, he would become a serious Leica addict,
>>spending his meager pension on folding lens hoods for ancient
>>elmarits and eating his cat's food.
>>The people to the left are laughing, sharing an digital camera's
>>image of their party in the restaurant they have just left.
>>Yes, film noir,  it is.
>>
>>John B
>>
>>
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