"Marty Fremen" <Marty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Hmm, the M-1, the precursor to the OM1, was introduced in 1972. So in
>> 2012 the OM1 will have been 40 years old. Yet this alleged photographer
>> bought about 12 of them, second hand
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>
> Obviously she bought them second hand! She could hardly have bought them
> new, could she?
Marty,
If you were 82, and had been working in photography for some 60 years and
someone asked you when you had bought a particular camera would you like
to
be tied down to an exact date or stretch of years or would you quite
likely
say something like, "Oh god, I bought those 40 years ago!"
I have had many cameras. I had, for instance, a third or fourth hand
Rollei
in the 60's. I couldn't even guess at when I bought it. I cannot even
remember how much it cost.
I really believe that this obsession with dates and times and exactitude
does not fit with an artistic mind. The two are incompatible. Which is why
Bown can make confusing statements about exactly when she bought a camera,
for God's sake, but has a long and productive history of producing top
class, nay, world class, photography. Look at her photographs of Orson
Welles, Samuel Becket, Truman Capote, Evelyn Waugh, Margaret Thatcher or
any
of the many others and then tell me you can criticise her for not
remembering when she bought a camera.
That's all
Bill
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