Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's why they had photo editors in those days. Not so much as to assign, but to crop. I'm sure by the time they used and re-used that shot, if at all, it went through an unlimited amount of cropping. Slobodan Dimitrov On Apr 5, 2007, at 7:34 AM, bob palmieri wrote: > > On Apr 4, 2007, Slobodan wrote: > >> One of my hobbies is collecting news photos from old defunct wire >> services. >> I collect them to remind myself that there never was a golden age. >> Technical mediocrity was normative. >> Poor quality was the standard. >> Content, more often than not, was poorly arranged and expressed. >> Otherwise, people with cameras, were just making a living. > > Slobodan - > > I also dig around for publication photos here in Chicago. Here's > one from this weekend (those so inclined may deconstruct at will): > > http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/image/76696736 > > Bob Palmieri > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information