Re: [Leica] More strange stuff from Jim Brick

[c.blaue@bmsg.de]

I second your opinion and would like to add to the toppers: Salgado and Tina Manley.
HCB might well be THE photographer who has influenced the most Leica
photographers.

christoph

>> Jim Brick <jim@brick.org> writes:

     > Well, to continue your opinions of me, I have to say that none of those
     > old snap shooters thrill me. Yeah, their pictures are OK, perhaps good,
     > but the Leica photographer folks that I like are: Ernst Haas,
     > Constantine Manos, Fred Maroon, Fred Ward, Bill Pierce, Ted Grant (I
     > have his book, So should you.) I think these more modern day people,
     > with more modern equipment and ideas, can turn out better far
     > images. In both content and execution. At least in my eyes they do. I
     > think a lot of the old people are revered as great, just because they
     > were first. Not that their photography was so "super"
     > exceptional. This, by no means, is a "put down." It's just my opinion
     > on the best Leica photographers, of those that I've seen.