I read Brooks Atkinson's essay. I think it's clear that he meant the Bullock print he made was technically superior, not aesthetically. As I recall he had a couple measurements that formed the basis for his statement, one I think was dMax, I forget what the other one was. So as I recall he had at least a personal standard for his statement.
Unfortunately I can't double check my recollection because I threw this issue of LensWork away. I thought the portfolios were the most uninteresting I've seen in over ten years of subscribing to LensWork. Am I the only one getting tired of these portfolios of inhabitants of exotic countries or people in some sort of oddball occupation or location? I don't mean to demean the photographers who make these photographs, they're excellent work, it's just that every issue of LensWork seems to contain one or more portfolios of this type. Or maybe I'm just getting bored with the magazine after reading it religiously for so many years but lately it's just seemed to be the same ole same ole every issue.
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