Talk:Fred Stein

Escape from Germany

Justice of the Peace? Or Civil registry?! --Schoener alltag (talk) 10:47, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Early pioneering (or not)

Kodak advertisement, 1900 (nine years before Stein was born)

Stein was born in 1909. He "was an early pioneer of the hand-held camera"; the camera he used, the Leica, "ushered in the era of the mobile camera". So says the article.

Well well.

(Please examine the advertisement.) -- Hoary (talk) 09:06, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

I've now more or less fixed this particular variety of hyperbole within the article. (There appears to be plenty of other varieties of hyperbole.) -- Hoary (talk) 23:57, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

The wondrousness of Stein's photos

The article tells us:

One of the doors into understanding Stein's skill is the fact that he was able to establish a remarkable rapport with people, due partly to easy conversational skills, but also to a natural feeling for the essence of another person. He created a sphere in which his subjects felt free to reveal themselves and their world. It can be seen in the photographs, physically, in the fact that he is not apart from his people—not judging them—he is with them, and not at a distance. He enables their animating spirit to manifest itself.

Et cetera.

Says who? Where? -- Hoary (talk) 23:57, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

I took my scissors to this whole section before reading your comment. -Lopifalko (talk) 07:42, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Well done, thank you.

I've looked at the website made on behalf of Fred Stein, and particularly at the photographs there. I'm impressed. If I encounter a copy of the recent Kehrer book at some bookstore, I'll definitely take it off the shelf and look through it. I might even buy it. So I think that some of the praise that this article has for FS is justified. But my opinion doesn't matter. What matters is whether somebody has uttered such praise in a reliable, published source. Such praise (or criticism), we can put in the article -- precisely attributed, of course. -- Hoary (talk) 06:54, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

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