Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Gil [mailto:pasuno@hotmail.com] >Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 10:44 AM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: [Leica] Off with their Pedestals! > >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. [snip] >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. <Boggle> Well, I for one will disputandum your gustibus, Mike. Jim was *there*, doing it, creating a whole new genre of photography. His shot of Hendrix defined the man. His shots of Janis let us in on who the person was behind the "Pearl" mask. I don't know what your criteria are for "bad/not-too-bad/ok/good/best", but Marshall ranks right up there for me. Now there may be some clinkers in the book (the shot of Jim Morrison springs to mind), but as a documenter of that era I think Marshall ranks right up there at the head of the parade. And to think that he did most of that while he was stoned, too! I always ended up wondering why the colours in the viewfinder were so bright, when I was sure I had loaded Tri-X... Paul Chefurka