Digital BW, The Print

To: "Editor P.O.V. Image Service" <editor@...>

>Mary Ellen Marks and Annie Leibovitz for example have no frigging clue 
>about actually printing... Doesn't make them unsuccessful.. Go see a 
>shoot be either one, they don't even look through the camera until the 
>last moment.. EVERYTHING except pressing the shutter is done by 
>assistants, etc..  After years of think about this, I have decided that 
>neither one is a real photog in my book (nor in many other photog's 
>"books") anymore..  Great editors, yes, as that is essentially what they 
>do, pick a great print from contacts and proofs..  Great marketers? 
>yes..  Great photogs.. No..  Even good printers?  HAHAHAHAHA
>Not!

Now, I don't think much of Leibovitz as a photographer and Mary Ellen Marks is not a favorite of mine; but to state that they are not real photographers strikes me as nonsensical. By this measure Henri Cartier-Bresson is not a real phorographer either, as he did not make his own prints.

--Mitch/Bangkok