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Thank you very much for your comment, Donald. I alwyas enjoy learning from others’ experience and research, and certainly have no desire to argue the impressions you received from meetings with people involved in the movement. As you, no doubt, realized from reading the writings of Adams, he was a very modest man. And I’m sure that it was accurate to say that he was a bit intimidated at his first meeting with Stieglitz, for the man was a pioneer, and had many accomplishments to his credit (crowned by the family of man series). But usually, one becomes more relaxed after first meetings, and the subject matter becomes more forceful than personality. I think that what is really important in the disagreement between Stieglitz, Adams, and Weston, was their differing views on art and the use of technique. But I leave it to the academics to have the last word on the historical significance.