Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/13

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Subject: Re[2]: [Leica] Re: hero worship
From: Bob Walkden <bob@web-options.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 20:20:50 +0100
References: <200108131550.LAA04069@mcfeely.concentric.net> <49611368.997693809@sgathan.reid.org>

Hi,

> But my name has never appeared on the print. Most of the photographers whose work I have printed never even knew my name. Printmakers are anonymous. If they are known to anybody at all, they are
> known to the photographer and occasionally to the curator. Never to the public. 

> I rather like it that way. I am most comfortable being invisible. 

around here photographers like me who don't do our own printing trade
the names of good printers, so they're not entirely anonymous. Also, a
great many exhibitions here give a credit to the printers. And of
course there are some very well known printers, such as Pierre
Gassmann.

- ---

 Bob  

mailto:bob@web-options.com

"Remember, you push the shutter, 
 don't let the shutter push you"

- --Walker Evans

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