Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I was reading through Delahaye's "Wintereise" recently and noticed that one >of the pictures features a male in what appears to be a hotel bathroom >photographing himself in the mirror. The camera is a black rangefinder, the >lense is very(?) wideangle (you cannot see the lense itself in the picture). >Any idea of what either is? > >For those of you who havn't seen it, the book is a collection of grim >photographs of Russia, many in somewhat lurid colours. It is indeed a grim though beautiful book, for which Delahaye won the Oskar Barnack Prize in 2000. All photos were shot with a Contax G2, if I recall. Coincidentally, it came out at the very same time as another book on contemporary Russia, "Acta Est," by Lise Sarfati who, like Delahaye, is also a Magnum photographer. That book was made with an M6 and a 28. Both books were mentioned in Leica Magazine, December 2000, n. 11. Sarfati's work can also be seen in "Magna Brava: Magnum Women's Photographers" (Prestel, 2000). Guy