Please do Eric - Le baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville was a masterpiece as many of us know it, even though it was staged and paid for - and I guess your photos will have more sincerity in them, so please DO post them, will you? Thaks in anticipation Yours Phil...x LEICAFLEX wrote: >Hi all, >This being April, I would like to propose that we take a moment to >remember a great Leica M-camera 'street photographer' that was born in >April ninety plus years ago; he left behind some classic B&W images >from yesteryear for us to enjoy and be inspired even today. >He is none other than Robert Doisneau (born April 14, 1912). >See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Doisneau. This photographic >artist not only captured moments in time, he also captured our hearts. >Here's one of his most famous photographs, "Le Baiser de l'Hotel de >Ville, Paris, 1950" >http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Hotel-de-Ville-Posters_i326179_.htm >which sold for a quarter million greenbacks in 2005! >http://www.iphotocentral.com/news/article_view.php/94/88/470 >Other pictures of his are chronicled here: >http://www.iphotocentral.com/showcase/showcase_view.php/74/1/1 > >I have some photos taken in Florence, Italy from March this year, that >were inspired by "Le Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville (The Kiss at City >Hall)", and wanted to know if I would offend anyone if I posted them >on this thread in homage to this French photographic artiste >extraordinaire! Please let me know your thoughts before I venture to >put these online, and perhaps even invite other folks on this thread >to share their shots in this genre? > >Cheers, >Eric Chan >------ >Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm >Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > > > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/