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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Garry Winogrand
From: chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson)
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:10:58 -0700

Ralph Gibson, too. They must get free Leicas, or something.

Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnny Deadman" <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Garry Winogrand


> 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.
> --
> Johnny Deadman
>
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>
>