Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/16

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Subject: [Leica] Swimming upstream with the salmon
From: buzz.hausner at verizon.net (buzz.hausner@verizon.net)
Date: Mon Aug 16 08:46:30 2004
 
Actually, "Less is More," was initially articulated by the architect Ludwig 
Mies Van Der Rohe.  If Mies had his own country he certainly would have been 
a dictator.  As it was, he certainly dictated the aesthetics and morals of 
the Bauhaus.

Buzz Hausner

> 
> From: "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com>
> Date: 2004/08/16 Mon AM 11:20:22 EDT
> To: "Lugmail" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Swimming upstream with the salmon
> 
> Steve
> 
> The salmon swim upstream all the time and seem to enjoy it. Get a 24 1.4 
> and
> jump in the water. It's a great piece of glass.
> 
> Incidentally, was it Big Brother who said "Less is More"? In the case of
> photo equipment that old bastard of a dictator was right.  The fewer pieces
> of gear you have hanging around your neck the better your photographs.
> 
> Walt J.