Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Eggleston cameras
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:29:51 -0800

Anders Nygren wrote:
> 
> Dan Cardish wrote:
> >
> > I don't think winning the Hasselblad Award requires use of a Hasselblad.
> > Didn't Robert Frank win the award a few years ago?
> >
> > Dan C.
> >
> 
> Yes, in 1996 Robert Frank won it.
> 
> Previous prize-winners have been: (Up to 1995)
> 
> -Lennart Nilsson, Sweden;
> -Ansel Adams, USA;
> -Henri Cartier-Bresson, France;
> -Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mexico;
> -Irving Penn, USA;
> -Ernst Haas, USA;
> -Hiroshi Hamaya, Japan;
> -Edouard Boubat, France;
> -SebastiÑo Salgado, Bra-zil/France;
> -William Klein, USA/France;
> -Richard Avedon, USA;
> -Josef Koudelka, Czechoslovakia/France,
> -Sune Jonsson, Sweden;
> -Susan Meiselas, USA; and
> -Robert Höusser, Germany.
> 
> And some of You will be shocked to hear that the 1999 Hasselblad Award
> went
> to ........
><Snip> 

You call these guys photographers?????!!
Now Sune Jonsson, that's a photographer!!!?
How about Harvey Schwartz?? now THAT's a photographer!! :)
Mark :-) Rabiner