Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/03

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Subject: [Leica] Intro
From: bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C)
Date: Mon Jan 3 12:34:51 2005
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At least he did get decisive moments.   I'm not sure if I ever have.  :-(

-dan c.

At 02:06 PM 03-01-05 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote:
>It is also a ludicrous myth that each of his images represents a
>"decisive moment" in the sense of his seeing, pressing the shutter
>release, and having a single, glorious image: he was an extremely hard
>working, hard shooting photographer, who burned up quantities of film to
>get the "decisive moment." I forget whose line it is that the "decisive
>moment" was the instant the right image on the contact sheet caught his
>eye...
>
>...None of which is to detract from his place as one of the great visual
>artists of the 20th century.
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