Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08: 39 AM 4/2/99 -0500, you wrote: >All, > >Gene Smith was one of the greatest, perhaps eclipsing even HCB, IMVHO. >The reason I say this is/was his different style. If you spend time with >Country Doctor, Minimata or Spanish Village, you know that he was an >artist first, photographer second. I have (somewhere) a book entitled >Great Photographic Essays from LIFE, which you all should have. In it, >selected LIFE photo essays are printed as they appeared in the magazine >as originally published. The narrative which introduces each essay >comments on the photographer and the layout. Spanish Village is >characterized as "the icy pinnacle of perfection." Yikes. Of course, to >walk through the pages is to visit some extraordinary and near-perfect >images. Three soldiers with tricorn(?) hats looking off into the >distance. The spinster. They were invasive, active, bold, piercing, >wonderful. They were not snapshots. They are among the best you will >ever see. > >David W. Almy >Annapolis References: <199904021140.NAA12646@mail.pi.se> è4ƒ Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com/