Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/04

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Subject: [Leica] Off with their Pedestals!
From: "Mike Gil" <pasuno@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 07:44:22 PST

Include Jim Marshall in this list, I just picked up his new book at a 
discounted price of $11.95 at Barnes&Noble and what a disappointment.  After 
hearing so much about him on this list his work is pedestrian at best 
remedial at worst.  It looks like he stumbled into a room weighted down by 
four Leica's and snapped a picture.

Annie Leibovitz and Mary Ellen Mark shooting similar subject during the same 
period run circles around this guy.  For some one that carries his camera 
around with him all the time, he is yet to capture anything worth printing.

I hope you folks dont think me to cruel but look at some of the web sites of 
luggers and compare their work to Marshalls.  I would say a majority of you 
would be able to out shoot him anytime.  This is not to put down lugger just 
to point out how much better your work is.

Jim should donate his camera to a high school photography to help out the 
upcoming talent in stead of wasting his Leica's in his hands.

mg
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