Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not to forget Atget, who got the whole street thing going I think. Then the hungarian french photographers (Kertesz, Brassai) and the german french photographers (ilse bing) and the -- etc. you can fill in the blank. The NY Times you can fight with one way or another and I often do but there is no doubt of one thing: the headline writers (copy editors) in the arts section are stupid and clumsy. I'd go berserk if I were writing for them. V On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Steve Unsworth <lug at steveunsworth.co.uk>wrote: > Indeed not! > > Also there's Doisneau and Boubat. Doisneau is possibly underestimated by > many because "The Kiss" is so well known, and some of his shots (the kiss > included) were set up, but he did some outstanding work. Boubat is possibly > my all time favourite French photographer. He had a wonderful eye and he > was > one of those whose photographs make me think he was photographing from the > inside looking out, where as I've always felt that HCB was an outsider > looking inwards - which isn't to say he was a bad photographer, just a > different one. > > Steve > > On 17 Apr 2010, at 23:03, Tarek Charara wrote: > > > And not to forget Willy Ronis... > > > > All the best from the south of France! > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >