Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a book about/from Michel Laurent (1946-1975), one of the 135 photographers missing or having been killed in Vietnam. He died two days before the war ended, the last Western journalist to be killed there. The book is a compilation made by his wife (Michele Laurent) of his photographs (B&W), his letters to her and photographs of him made by his colleagues (Depardon, etc...). It's a very nice book (in French), really human. Michel Laurent Title : Je pense a vous 200 pages Editions du Seuil, novembre 1994. ISBN 2-02-022480-1 N.B. From what I can see in the book, Laurent was using Nikon Fs at the beginning, then Leica M? and at the end 2 black M4s and 1 SL Mot with Telyt 400/6,8 . He received the World Press Photo 1974 thanks to a serie of photographs from Kissinger made (I think) with that SL-Mot + 400/6,8. Lucien