Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/22

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange present the truth - Bush presented a fiction.
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 09:18:50 -0500

Amen.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Tim
Atherton
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 11:15 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange present the truth -
Bush presented a fiction.


Walker Evans was, of course, a photographer who worked in the
documentary style, not a documantary photographer.

Which isn't to say his photographs didn't and don't convey the truth
about something (or even facts). After all, poetry can and often does
convey truth.

tim

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