Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/04

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Subject: Re: Vs: [Leica] Ansel Adams/John Wimberley WAS Mapplethorpe
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 17:11:39 -0500

on 3/12/00 5:25 pm, Raimo Korhonen at raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi wrote:

> Well - even a true master may not have 100% success rate. Not even HCB, not
> Wimberley (whoever he is) - you name it. But as you said: "Most people
> remember half a dozen of Ansel Adams' pictures" - and you cannot say that of
> many photographers.

Some of John Wimberley's images can be seen at:

    http://www.lenswork.com/photogjwimberley.htm

His best known image 'descending angel' is bizarrely atypical of most of his
work and only became well known because it was used as a book cover.

- -- 
Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com