Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/28

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Subject: [Leica] Elliott Erwitt
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 15:42:21 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Steve Barbour wrote:

>
>On Jul 28, 2013, at 1:59 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>
>> I think humor is one of the higher and more important type of smarts.
>> Its really as if EE has a monopoly on humor in photography.
>> You'd think it would be every other guy as is the case in every other 
>> field
>> but just not photography.
>> I just cant think of a photographer known for humor working nowadays off 
>> the
>> top of my head at all. Not one.
>> Another Magnum photog Richard Kalvar has a lot of irony and a lot of 
>> darned
>> near to sight gags in his shots but seems to be a different league in that
>> respect from Erwitt.
>
>
>Craig Semetko is a young (ish), wonderful, very humorous photographer  well 
>known >to many of us and busy today. Take a look Mark. 
>

Seconded.  He also posts here on the LUG.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com