Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] VII
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:40:08 -0500
References: <F101nrvDOv5y4FypKsE00000e21@hotmail.com>

It is indeed slow loading - but worth the wait. But it is definitely a 
site to convince one its time to go for a DSL connection!;-)

B. D.

Gerry Walden wrote:

>> From what i have seen of this site so far, this is IMHO the very best of 
> 
> photojournalism by some of the worlds great living photographers. I 
> think that the problem is that we are so used to seeing photojournalism 
> (which is often said to be a dying art form) invading our homes on a 
> daily basis through the medium of newspapers, TV and the Net. As a 
> result we become blaise about it and are always looking for the 'new 
> image'. You only have to compare the standard of this work with the 
> bland work that was in the average Life magazine to see that progress 
> has been made.
> 
> The problem I had with the site was the appallingly slow loading speed 
> of it.
> 
> Gerry
> www.gwpics.com
> 
> 
>> From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
>> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] VII
>> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:11:34 -0800
>>
>> I don't know, but it sure looks like NGO photography to me.
>> I've had a number of friends complain that photojournalism is dying. A
>> number have bailed out and gone on to more commercial ventures.  Which
>> make wonder if this isn't a coming ground swell of _concerned
>> photographers_ trying to stem the tide of editorial disinterest with
>> their whining pollyanna rubric.
>> Albeit the work is technically sound, I had to stifle a number of 
>> mental yawns.
>>
>>  Slobodan Dimitrov
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