Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/13

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Subject: Re: Los Famosos
From: ireland@blazenet.net (Robert Brummett)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 23:06:59 -0500

>On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Robert Brummett wrote:
>
>> other justifiably reknowned light-workers? There's a famous series of pix
>> by Adams at Canyon de Chelly (1937?) with a Leica (anybody know what it
>> was?) involving Georgia O'Keefe and party, but what do we know about Edward
>
>It wasn't a Leica in Adams' hands. From _Examples - The Making of Forty
>Photographs_:
>"At one rim-edge I was walking around with my Zeiss Contax and I observed
>Georgia O'Keefe . . . "
>Elsewhere in the same book, Adams declared a preference for the
>operational design of the Contax to the Leica.
>
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>Written by:     Roy C. Zartarian        | Prophets are not without honor
>                25 Stuart Street        | except in their own country
>                Newington, CT 06111 USA | and in their own house.
>                http://www.connix.com/~royzart

Roy-

Thanks for the correction. What else do you know about small cameras in the
hands of the classic big-camera workers?

Robert