[Leica] Leica Gallery and the Puddle Jumper FWIW

[wvl at comcast.net (Bill Lawlor)]

In the Spring of 1999 I attended a gallery show of HCB prints, The 
Europeans, at Louisiana, near Copenhagen. A talk was given (in English) by 
some academic expert on HCB. He discussed the Puddle Jumper at some length 
and put up a slide of "the negative". I was struck by the fact that the 
negative was only perforated on one side and asked the speaker about it. He 
said it was a copy negative which I took to mean a copy of the original 
negative. This discussion suggests to me that might have been a copy of a 
print.

BTW, I was surprised to see that a number of the pre-WWII prints were out of 
focus.

Bill Lawlor