[pure-silver] Re: Leica Digital Rangefinder $1.8 million
- From: Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:29:25 -0500
On 11/26/2013 11:15 AM, bobkiss @caribsurf.com wrote:
> DEAR JEAN-DAVID,
> I have been reading about Edward Weston and looking at original
> prints and reproductions of his work since university in the early 70s.
> This is the first I have ever read that he was "nearly blind". Might
> you be willing to send us all some documentation of this claim? I have
> seen many photos of him wearing glasses but never read that suggestion
> before.
> CHEERS!
> BOB
I was joking, sarcastically. Neither of the points I made were true.
Weston, at one point, got so annoyed about people saying what a great
lens he must be using, got a lens for $5 or $10 or something like that
in a second hand shop and used it (at least for a while).
And that stuff about his being blind I just made up. No way could he
have seen the images he did if he could not see, both optically and
artistically.
Sorry if you believed me. I was just kidding.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Jean-David Beyer
> <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> On 11/26/2013 09:58 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> > On 11/26/2013 08:29 AM, Bob Younger wrote:
> >> And it will be art because they used a very expensive special camera
> >> to make it; and they clearly have the funds to promote the exhibit.
> >> Damn I'm getting cynical.
> >
> >
> > It's always been like that. The high priests of the art world have
> always
> > had the power to say something is special or not based on their own
> > whims. Me? I just make lovely pictures for my own delight.
> >
> Right. Edward Weston used the most expensive lenses available to make
> his photographs. Otherwise, his work would have been unknown. It is not
> generally known that he was nearly blind and could not even see well
> enough to focus his camera. ;-)
>
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