david_quilty

Tony it has always struck me as to how you can produce dam good photos and then wax eloquently about photography and all it touches.

To your point:

?I wonder whether this will ever happen again, such an amazing confluence of time, talent and place?

Well it occurs to me that perhaps photo.net is such a place and the time is now. The talent is there not in concentrated form and maybe not reaching heights you refer to, but diluted by democracy. Photography can only be new once. Yet I wonder what a treasure trove photo.net would be if kept in place over time. What an amazing archive to record this ?time? and from places all around the globe preserved as long as Philip Greenspan et al keep the servers running.

HCB had his time and used it well, and we have ours; as for me I hope to use it better than I have to date, especially with respect to photography. Perhaps that is the legacy of people like HCB, inspiring other to try and see the world in new ways.

Note sure if this is the best place to post this but

The Fitchburg (Massachusetts) Museum of Art has concurrent

exhibitions showing about 30 Elliot Porter shots including 3 B+W.

Also 70 or so Ansel Admas 'lesser' known yet fascinating shots of a

trip with Georgia O'Keefe and friends. Many of these are proofs but

several are finished prints including portraits. The

famous "Moonrise of Hernandez" is included. See their web page for

details: http://www.fitchburgartmuseum.org/

FYI there is an excellent article in the July/August issue of The

Atlantic Monthly on 'Ansel Adams at 100' show:

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href="http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/07/brower.htm">http://www

.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/07/brower.htm</a>