From: Jack Fulton (jefulton1@attbi.com)
Date: 09/19/02-11:24:08 PM Z
The best example I can think of about a great edited book of a photographer
who didn't know diddley squat about editing is 'American Photographs' by
Walker Evans. The editor like ballet. The editor was a lot smarter than the
photographer. The editor taught Mr. Evans what he had. This is take zero
credit for the splendid images Mr. Evans had forged.
> Since so much of what separates 35mm photographers is the ability to
> edit and since he never edited his work, did he do any work? Or was his
> compulsion to take pictures a mental illness since he apparently had no need
> to go to the next step in the process. This would be similar in my mind to
> some who is a painter and later in the painter's career, the painter
> stretches his/her own canvasses and then simply never gets around to putting
> anything the canvasses, but maybe has some rough sketches. We can conjecture
> what might have been but we'll never know.
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