Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ian's work is nothing less than an outstanding example of suberb technique and a wonderful eye done with rangefinder-style cameras. His work on photo.net is quite catchy. Steve Stuart Phillips wrote: >Where does it say " Leica and other rangefinders are used."? Alongside >each (excellent) photo it says "Nikon F ()". > >Am I missing something? > >Stuart Phillips > >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Chefurka [mailto:paul@chefurka.com] >Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 10:26 PM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Ian MacEachern ? > >On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 19:09:31 -0400, "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com> wrote: > > > >>I stumbled upon this photographer on photo.net >>http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=130648 >>http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=218763 >> >>The photos are in the style we often talk about on this list, i.e. >> >> >street or > > >>documentary photography. Leica and other rangefinders are used. >> >> >>From the look of the photos, he must have been around for a while. > > >>Anybody knows ? A lot of the photos were taken in and around >>Midland, Ontario [another incidental Leica connection, just to stay on >> >> >topic]. > >Ian and I were contemporaries in London Ontario in the early and mid >'70s. >He did the documentary/art thing and I shot weddings :-/ He's been a >Leica >fan from the beginning. I bought his Nikon SP with a 35/1.8 W-Nikkor >that >I still remember fondly. He's a hell of a good photographer, and from >our >recent exchanges, he's apparently mellowed with age... > >My wife was a custom colour printer at a London lab at the time (that's >how >we met) and she did a lot of Ian's printing. She remembers him as a guy >with a great eye who didn't know shit from shinola about colour printing >:-) He sure knows his way around a Focomat, though. > >I always envied his work, and if I had been a little less youthfully >pigheaded back then I'd have emulated it even more than I did. IMO he >has a >purity of vision coupled with a flawless technique that I'd give a >significant body part to share. > >Paul > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html