Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] back to Leica dialogue! -Reply -Reply
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:02:29 -0800

"B. D. Colen" wrote:
> Well, I have to say that I wouldn't necessarily expect HCB's photos of the
> rich and famous to be his best.  On the contrary.
> ---
> Gareth - Famous..usually culturally...What surprised me was that the photos
> were so.....vapid...they were simply disembodied portraits that did little
> to reflect the personality, lives, etc., of the people.snip

Maybe they were supposed to be vapid like Avedon's Rose Kennedy.
Mark Rabiner