Hi, > I got this offlist e-mail from a lurker (doesn't that sound bad?). He asked > that I forward it to the list. So here you go.
[...] > Thank you, > Melchi Thank you. I hope you will start to post more often to the list, rather than remain a lurker. We need more people who can express themselves as well and as intelligently as you have done. I would like to add one more comment to yours. I know some people who simply do not understand Picasso, and do not understand why he is considered a great artist. I can find no way of explaining his genius to such people - they simply don't get it. I believe the same thing applies to Cartier-Bresson - some people will never understand what makes him great, and attempts to rationalise it will always fail with such people. This may sound like intellectual snobbery, but I don't mean it to be. There are some artists and photographers that I will never understand, but when people whose opinion I respect tell me that they are great, then I have to accept that, and my own inability, and try to work at a it a little harder. -- Cheers, Bob
