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Subject: [Leica] enough with Olympus DSLR postings PLEASE
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Mon Mar 20 15:39:34 2006
References: <C0447485.E277%bdcolen@comcast.net>

And I could not resist...

And then.... all the druggies in the world straightened out. Winos 
bathed and shaved..Social misfits turned over a new leaf..Many of the 
most horrible diseases know to mankind were cured. Eugene Richards was 
left with nothing to photograph. He threw away his only lens (a 21mm), 
started taking anti-depressants and  began selling real estate.

Walt

B. D. Colen wrote:

>And for all the talk of the decisive moment, he shot like a machine gun, and
>really worked his scenes. Eugene Richards tells the story of first being
>voted into Magnum, and immediately heading for the filing cabinets that held
>HCB contact sheets. He said he was amazed at what a prolific shooter HCB was
>- shot after shot after shot after shot of the same subject, worked from
>every conceivable angle.
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