Digital BW, The Print

Picky, picky...It's Mary Ellen Mark
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mitch Alland 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:39 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re:Luminous Landscape 2200 Review


  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


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