Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Street photography using LF (Was: DOF, Perspective etc.)
From: George Lottermoser <imagist@concentric.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:56:43 -0600
 
durling@widomaker.com (Mike Durling)11/10/0010:07 AM

> I know that Paul Strand did LF street photos in the late teens. 
The work
> was published in Stieglitz's "Camera Work" (available as a
reprint).  He
> used a very shiny false lens on the side of the camera and hid
the real lens
> under his sleeve.  I suspect he was using a Graphlex.

In Paul Strand's work in India he used a prism on the lens of his
8x10 - aiming the camera 90 degrees from his subjects.

George