Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Garry Winogrand
From: Johnny Deadman <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 19:58:58 +0100

on 28/4/00 1:38 PM, Hank Auderer at hank@rivercitysilver.com wrote:

> Back in the early 70's we were in a workshop with Winogrand at Imageworks,
> in Cambridge.  He sat across from us in a small room - he in a chair and a
> few of us on a couch.  Someone asked him how attached he was to the Leica -
> how facile he was with it.  He set the self timer a few degrees, flipped
> the Leica up in the air, and took our picture - almost perfectly framed, as
> it turned out!  He was amazing, and full of the joy of photography.

Robert Frank is supposed to have done the same thing. DAMN! I better learn
that trick.
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