Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I have to confess that this is a thread that I haven't been following, so > I'm not certain just which Feininger photograph is being discussed. Is it > a graphically arresting vertical portrait of a young person looking > through the auxiliary viewfinder of a camera held vertically and close to > the face? With the face itself illuminated only at the center by a > tightly cut circle of light that leaves the figure's hair in shadow, so > that it's hard to tell whether it's hair or a cap? (Sorry for the foot- > long descriptive sentences.) If that's the photograph we're talking > about, it's a portrait of a very young Dennis Stock, now a Magnum > photographer. Feininger did it in 1951 (I think) on a studio assigment > for Life magazine about a competition for young photographers that Life > had sponsored. > > If this *isn't* the photograph that you've been talking about, then I'm > sorry for butting in on the end of a conversation uninvited. > > Regards > > Dan Bowdoin > > (who can't remember his own cell phone number, but who can dredge this > kind of stuff up out of his memory instantly) > Well I am glad that is settled. http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~esdale/photo.jpg sl