Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Clearly the best photography (not primarily photo-equipment oriented) periodical for those interested in fine photography and Leicas is "Leica Fotographie", published in Germany but available in an English edition. Available via subscription from Tamarkin in Connecticut. Aperature is a wonderful magazine and worth the subscription price. However, several recent issues have been spotty and subject to some criticism. The issue before last was about "food and photography" and included interviews with chefs. Really too precocious (and certainly irrelevant to LUG). It is a shame that there really is not a decent periodical dedicated to fine photography as opposed to the mechanics of technique or equipment. A great many of the finest photographers in history (Cartier-Bresson, Kertesz, Brassai, Ilse Bing, Eisenstat, and recently Sebastio Salgado and Flor Garduno, among many others) have used the Leica. Come to think of it, it is a shame that there isn't a newsgroup on the subject! Michael R. Friedberg mrflaw@ibm.net