Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:26 PM 2/25/99 +0100, you wrote: >On the other hand, people like Walker >Evans, Diane Arbus, Eugene Smith, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand, and Robert >Frank had a very hard time either (at various times in their professional >lives) making ends meet while staying true to their ideals and/or >subordinating themselves to idiots when they absolutely had to. Yep. Beethoven tossed off "Moonlight Sonata" as a pot boiler. Not some great impetus to produce "art." Someone one day said "Hey, that sounds like moonlight on water," and the name stuck. So I'm told. :-) We don't think of him as a hack or prostitute. We all have to eat. Photography is a quite resilient craft as well as art. We can do both. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch What is a free gift ? Aren't all gifts free?