Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Snapshots vs 'art'
From: Tim Atherton <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:57:06 -0600

"If most professional photography is dominated by the commercial stance or
the artistic posture, Evans is in recoil from these. His work might even be
said to have brought photographic style back around to the plain, relentless
snapshot."

Walker Evans's revisions of the publishers proposed text for the jacket of
the 1966 of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

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