Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Smith
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 12:45:34 +0000
 
Eugene Smith used virtually every kind of camera - and Leicas were 
certainly among them...look at any of the recent Smith books and you'll see 
him with LTMs....
At 06:00 PM 1/15/00 +0000, you wrote:
> >>>For what it is worth W
>Eugene Smith is my choice as my greatest photographic Artist of the past
>
>century - and not a Leica in sight<<<
>
>Huh? We published in our magazine a photograph of Smith at work in
>Africa, and he certainly appears to be holding a Leica. What do you mean
>"not a Leica in sight?"
>
>--Mike