Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]BD wrote: > I have always held HCB in awe....but...I have recently been spending > time > staring at the pages of Henri Cartier Bresson: Photoportraits, <snip> the vast majority of the > many many portraits in the book are really mundane. For a portraitist, Francis Wolff gets my vote. Very specialized, but stunning jazz portraits with Leica and Rollei cameras. There was a show here at the end of last year which originated in Paris of HCB's work, "The Europeans". A fine collection of street shots, some of which indicated that he may have had trouble loading his camera as well;°) (I didn't sign on to this list knowing there would be a quiz - is Ted grading?) Regards, Tim