Leica owners are touchy about being called fondlers ;-) Going off topic: I was watching a documentary yesterday about painter and sometime photographer Ben Shahn and his work during the depression & WWII for the Roosevelt administration.
It featured his wife & it was interesting to hear her describe how he worked to capture natural & unposed group scenes. She would stand in front of him, as if posing, and he would then photograph the people of to his left side using his Leica & right angle finder. Dave At 05:48 AM 27/11/2006, you wrote: >You live in a very small world, Peter. May I humbly suggest that you try >to expand your horizon. > >Just as a very small example, I recently picked up a copy of National >Geographic in which one of the stories was photographed mostly with what >looked to be a Leica M6. All the published photos were in color. > >Log on to some of the Leica lists and you'll see a lot of color work by >some very competent photographers, professional and amateur. > >Capa was using Leicas the day he was killed in 1954, and at least one of >his last rolls was in color (in fact, his very final frame was in color). >He was shooting both B&W and color that day. > >Larry Burrows shot a lot of his Vietnam work for Life magazine in color >using his Leica M3. > >Dickey Chapelle used Leicas, and did several stories for National >Geographic, in color, using those cameras. In fact, she did the first story >exposing the US's true involvement in the Vietnam war which was published >in National Geographic (1971 comes to mind - I don't have the issue here in >front of me). > >My friend, Bill Lawlor, who sometimes frequents this list, has shot a lot >of his recent work with an M3 Leica using transparancy film. He's won a >few "best in show" awards for some of his travel photography. > >I could go on, but why bother ... I'm sure you get the picure ;-)) > > >Shel > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Peter Lacus > > > But then I've seen many black&white picures made using Leica equipment > > and I have yet to see a color one worth the badge "made using Leica". > > Strange, isn't it? Maybe I'm just visiting wrong places (most recently > > Magnum gallery in London showing Robert Capa's works). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
