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Subject: [Leica] Ted gets quoted
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue Aug 5 09:41:22 2008

This is a quote I got from the lug and just used it the day before last but
didn't know it came from Ted!

To find it I had to do a search command F "Ted".
Third one down.

Is the quote accurate or is it B&W - souls before color - clothes?



mark@rabinergroup.com
Mark William Rabiner



> From: Tom Schofield <tomschofield@comcast.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:22:53 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Ted gets quoted
> 
> Here's the quote, Ted:
> 
> "Posted by: Toby Melville
> Tags: Reuters Photographers, ansel adams, baghdad, Beijing,China,
> Heathrow, London, Olympic
> A short while back I collated a few choice quotations and sayings on
> photography and the picture-taking process: ?A picture is worth a
> thousand words?.
> 
> *  *  *
> 
> ?When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes.
> But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph
> their souls.? (Ted Grant)" `
> 
> Apparently, you were quoted, but didn't make the "Tag" line -- which
> is a good thing, since the only photographer who did is deceased
> (AA)!  ; -)
> 
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Aug 5, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Ted Grant wrote:
> 
>> It seems some folks know what I?m accused of in being quoted?
>> 
>> If possible it would be very much appreciated knowing what I?m
>> supposed to
>> have said, where and how I might find it? Thank you.
>> 
>> Or simple option, that is if you find it quickly without wasting
>> your time,
>> if you wouldn?t mind merely block and copy, then post it would
>> suffice also.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> ted
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>> Marc
>> James Small
>> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 2:09 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Ted gets quoted
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> At 05:05 PM 8/4/2008, Clive Moss wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All.
>> 
>>> Ted get quoted on the Reuters blog alongside some illustrious
>>> company:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> So, you are suggesting that Ted is infamous and
>> 
>> not illustrious?  Hmm ... enquiring minds want to know!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Marc
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> msmall@aya.yale.edu
>> 
>> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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