LETTER OF THE WEEK
Imperfect is perfect for me
Over past decades I have been fortunate enough to have had some photographs published in AP. Of these, one was taken with a Kodak Junior 2 (anyone remember that?) and another with an Olympus XA1 35mm compact.
The late Edward Steichen – who had one of the world’s longest and most successful careers in art and applied photography – said that no photographer is as good as the simplest camera. For many years, AP has supported this view. I have been looking through some issues from the early 1940s. The excellent photographs featured were produced with equipment (including Box Brownies) that would be considered primitive today. By the end of the war most of the more advanced types (Leica,