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Subject: [OM] Re: Death of icons.
From: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:15:48 -0500
There is always a certain amount of revisionism after a great one passes 
on.  It happened to Ansel too:  "Our greatest 19th century photographer" is 
one of the comments I recall.

Joel W.

At 09:43 PM 8/14/2004 -0700, you wrote:

>Judging by the rants and argument on dpreview most people who call
>themselves photographers have never heard of him and resent being told
>that someone was a great photographer before they picked up their
>digicam for the first time. The ones who have seen some of his
>photographs say he was no good because there was a blur and may point
>out that there was no blur in their squirrel shot.  :-)
>
>
>Winsor
>Long Beach, CA
>USA
>On Aug 14, 2004, at 7:13 PM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
>
> >> Lots of people here got worked up about the death of Cartier-Bresson.
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, I can't really understand it, he'd had a good innings, obviously
> > attained his potential and had plenty of popular acclaim for his work.
> > I tend to get worked up about the people who get cut down in their
> > prime
> > (or before) and never get to achieve their real potential.
> >
> > ...Wayne
>
>
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