Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/08

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Subject: Re: Message VS Medium--It Ain't the Camera
From: Claes Bjerner <claes.bjerner@pi.se>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 97 23:00:46 +0200

Stephen Grady wrote:

>There would be a lot more great photographers, and a lot less camera
>manufacturers, if photographers spent their money on classes/film/paper
>and learned how to be photographers instead of spending their money on
>new equipment.


Stephen, could you please elaborate a little on "classes/film/paper". =
And guys like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Richard Avedon and =
W.Eugene Smith - what Photography Schools did they ever go to? Can =
you name one single really great photographer in the World who =
received a formal theoretical education in photography?

Talent is something you either have, or you don=B4t have. You can=B4t =
just learn it!


Claes Bjerner