Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Berry Berenson
From: Daniel Bowdoin <danlb@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:50:54 -0700
References: <20010913123314.4129.qmail@web20407.mail.yahoo.com>

B. D. Colen wrote

>I'm sure Ms. B was a wonderful person who will be
>dearly missed by all who knew her. But being a
>believer that one speaks of those who are dead as you
>would have spoken of them when they were alive - I'm
>afraid the sited Life cover only goes to show that
>it's not what skills you have, or what you are really
>capable of accomplishing, but who you know that
>counts: What got this photo onto the cover of Life was
>either Ms. Berenson's connect to the late Tony
>Perkins, or perhaps some access she had to C.S - Not
>photographic skill.
>
>
Mr. Colen . . .

The Life cover was the only photograph that I could find on the internet
on short notice. I did not intend it to be a demonstration of the quality
or lack thereof of her work . . . merely as a reminder that she once
existed and that she had a professional connection with photography. 

It is always good to know that there are plainspoken people like yourself
in the world. In this particular context I would not have felt it
necessary to make the comment you made above, about "Ms B" or anyone
else,  but then it is clear that you and I are by no means the same person.

Daniel Bowdoin 

In reply to: Message from "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen2001@yahoo.ca> (Re: [Leica] Berry Berenson)