Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/11
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At 9:48 PM -0600 9/10/03, Greg J. Lorenzo wrote:
>Hi Allen,
>
>I saw Alfie's book when I met him at the LHSA Meeting in Portland
>last year. It is not a myth. Lots of street photos of Philadelphia.
>One entire section of Philadelphian women, some very obviously not
>pleased to be photographed.
>
>Were the photo's professional quality? No. Were they deserving of
>some of the public comments posted by certain members of this list?
>Nothing is.
>
>Regards,
>
>Greg
>Allen Graves wrote:
>
>>Did anyone ever actually see Alfie's $1000 dollar (or whatever
>>price it was) portfolio? I sort of thought it was one of those
>>internet urban myths- like the guy who woke up in the bathtub,
>>packed in ice, and minus his kidneys.
Greg, I saw Alfie's book as well, and I feel similarly w.r.t. the
quality. He had a long way to go to achieve minimal acceptable
technical quality, no matter what one may have thought of the content.
As for the comments, when one promotes and prices one's work the way
Alfie did and produces the quality that he did, then I don't think
the comments were too harsh. The tougher comments only came after he
failed to respond to or acknowledge the first softer critiques of his
lack of technical control.
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