Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Luggites, > One further reason to see the Gene Smith exhibit. > He made the prints. > In his will/agreement with the University of Arizona where his archives >are held, they are prohibited from making new prints from his negatives. > A few years ago, I had a talk with someone from the University and >expressed an interested in seeing a new master print made from the >Schweitzer in the Pith Helmet photo. Smith double printed in the hand and >the saw in the lower right corner. I'd like to see a print with out the >double printing and so told it was not possible because of this agreement. > Jim Hughes, Gene Smith's biographer told me, he has seen seven different >versions of the pith helmet picture. In my book collection, I think I have >four. >Happy Snaps, >Sal DiMarco, Jr. >Philadelphia, PA Also interesting (and telling) are some of his other manipulated classics: compare, for example, the "stright" and burned versions of the Haitian madwoman prints, and the full frame and (radically) cropped shot of a woman (against a wall?) from the Spanish Village essay. Incredible Incredible Incredible An absolute f****** master! Guy