Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We'll settle this one off-list...;-) -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of buzz.hausner@verizon.net Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:55 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] The Critic Better Hit The Books Fortunately, I will have the opportunity soon to sit down with B.D. so that we can review several books of Cartier-Bresson's work and I will be able to prove to him just how silly a position he has taken. ;}> Buzz > > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > Date: 2004/05/25 Tue PM 02:38:27 EDT > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica] The Critic Better Hit The Books > > This one I will agree with you on. I think that, generally, he had a > European eye, if that makes any sense. > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf > Of Tim Atherton > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:14 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: RE: [Leica] The Critic Better Hit The Books > > > > > Excuse me? How about his work from Mexico? From Russia? From > > Bali? > > > From Japan? From Italy? We should all go back and review the man's > > entire (excuse the pun) cannon. In my opinion, he produced brilliant > > work from many countries. > > I'll give you Mexico... (and Italy - which I meant to include) - but > most of the work from those other countries others >From Russia? From > > Bali? From Japan? From India - just doesn't seem to have the same > consistency and level of achievement - his eye really did not seem to > carry over as well into non-European settings - it's one or two very > good ones here and there. > > tim _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information