Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/08

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Subject: [Leica] Salgado
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:56:25 +1030
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And you can buy all the Farm Security Administration photos from The
Library of Congress.  An amazing resource.  How else would I have a
real Walker Evans on the wall of my office?

Marty

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote:
> A local museum has a substantial collection of Gordon Parks. Once, the
> director showed me one print, ans said that the backs of all the others 
> were
> identical. Each bore the rubber stamp "Time-Life photo lab, negative number
> xxxx"
>
> I believe you can still buy prints of their stuff, just as you can buy a
> large number of prints from the NYT's collection.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Howard Ritter
> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 5:33 PM
>
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado
>
> Or, to give it the opposite spin, with respect to the thrust of the
> conversation about photographers rather than printers, every minute spent 
> in
> the darkroom is a minute not spent at the viewfinder.
>
> ?howard
>
>
> On Dec 8, 2012, at 1:12 PM, "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Looking back through history, there have been more highly regarded
>> photographers who had others do their printing and processing. The near
>> requirement that only the artist can print his own work is absurd. Every
>> minute shooting is a minute not spent on perfecting his printing.
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney) ([Leica] Salgado)
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