Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Eggleston the Ungood
From: Douglas Cooper <douglas@metaversalstudios.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:58:53 -0500
 
At 12:01 AM 11/15/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Worse photography than William Eggleston's?!?


Now now.  He's an acquired taste, to be sure, but after spending a few 
hours with The Democratic Forest, I'm more than convinced:  he's an 
original.  I think it's about the colors of nostalgia.  And the loose 
framing is revolutionary -- you saw it early on in street photography, but 
not in landscape work.

DC