Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Mon, 01 Feb 1999 18:01:14 -0500 (EST)
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On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Karl P. Koenig wrote:
> Several years ago I saw an extensive exhibit at the University of New
> Mexico Museum (oddly enough itself a Beaumont and Nancy Newhall
> beneficiary, by the way, Judy) of F. Sommer's work. It convinced me, more
> than any other pictures I had seen, that I was going to have to make
> photographic art for the rest of my working life. And I have. What a life
> and what productivity he achieved! Maybe there is something in the act (or
> in the chemicals) that prolongs life. Look at Carl Mydans or
> Cartier-Bresson for other instances.
Except that Cartier Bresson was one of the ones -- along with Strand,
Lartigue, and many others -- who LEFT photography in later life for
drawing and painting.
J.
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