Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/06/10

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Sunday's New York Times
From: pgs@thillana.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick Sobalvarro)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:21:37 -0400
 
As Charles Albertson said -- the New York Times yesterday was worth
buying.

What I found particularly neat about the Magazine section yesterday
were the Salgado pictures of oil workers capping the Kuwaiti wells, in
which (as the text says) the workers are in these classically heroic
positions -- they're covered in oil and look bronzed.  Amazing stuff.
Also the two-page spread of the Brazillian gold mine looks like one of
those murals of the Pyramids being constructed.  Salgado gets pride of
place in this survey -- they say that he is probably the best
photojournalist working today.

-Patrick Sobalvarro

P.S. Also kind of interesting is that the cover article opens with a
     picture of the business end of a lens atop the text -- the lens
     says on it "Elmarit-M," although they airbrushed out the part
     that would say "Leitz"!