[pure-silver] Re: Leica Digital Rangefinder $1.8 million
- From: "BOB KISS" <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:56:57 -0400
DEAR JEAN-DAVID,
Congratulations! You definitely got me on that one! I must
have had a case of "Gullible's Travels"! This doesn't happen often.
All seriousness aside, I also recall that Edward criticized his
son, Brett, once, in public (and it wound up in writing), saying that Brett
felt that he needed to have the most expensive lenses and cameras, fastest
(most expensive) cars and fastest (most expensive) women! Edward didn't
think all that was necessary but he did admit that Brett made great photos.
CHEERS!
GULLIBLE BOB
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Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 3:29 PM
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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Leica Digital Rangefinder $1.8 million
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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