Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Frank
From: "Timothy R. Kuntz" <covbldrs@usit.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:00:04 -0500
 
Greg Locke wrote:
> 
> At 04:55 PM 26/03/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Robert Frank is very simply the greatest living photographer and one of the
> >very few true artists working in photography.
> 
> God bless you!!  I thought I was the only one who held Robert Frank in such
> high esteem.
> The Americans was the single greatest influence on me since I picked up a
> camera as a teenager.
> 
I heard he was widely criticized for being a Hot Dog!
Mark Rabiner


That's a compliment in some circles.  I guess I'll just have to go dig out the book.
Tim K.