[Leica] RETROSPECT 1

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Good old Plus X looks great!

 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

?On 2/26/20, 11:18 AM, "LUG on behalf of Bill Clough via LUG" 
<lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at 
leica-users.org> wrote:

    USA
    TEXAS
    VICTORIA
    26 February 2020
    
    Hi there ?
    
    In 1960, I started a 60-year career in journalism. I joining the staff of
    the Amarillo Citizen, earning $25 a week and thought I was rich. I 
started
    with a Polaroid camera but soon realized the advantage of 35mm. So, I
    brought a Nicca camera at Sears.
    
    No one was prouder than me when I walked into the office with that camera
    around my neck. The publisher, who stood four-foot-seven in riser wheels,
    made up for it by wearing eyeglasses with thick, Italian frames. They 
must
    have bothered him because every time he had something important to say, 
he
    would. remove the glasses and rub his nose with his fingers.
    
    "Now Clough," he said, "everyone knows you can;'rt take a good newspaper
    photo except with a 2-1/4 camera>"
    
    I was crushed. At the local camera store I met the chief photographer of
    the daily newspaper. (Later, I would work for him).
    
    "I don't know why he told you that,:" he said. "LIFE Magazine has been
    using them for 30 years."
    
    For the next year, I still used the camera., I just cropped all the 
photos
    square.
    
    This is the first assignment. A lady had just brought what seemed to her 
a
    new breed to Amarillo, a Basenji dog. She took her dog outside. I told 
her
    I would be there is just a second, but first, I had to figure out how to
    load the camera.
    
    This is the start ion a 60-year retrospective. I hope to post one 
picture a
    day ? my favorite from 100,000 negatives. Don't despair, they number a
    little more than 100 negatives.
    
    Iy always is the tragedy of photographing;phy: his prints sometimes 
survive
    but the negatives are dumped in a landfill. The ensuing collection is my
    meagre attempt to establish some kind of memory of six decades behind a
    keyboard, a microphone and a viewfinder.
    
    
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/basenjidog-00000-1.jpg.html
    
    Gallery:
    http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/
    
    Bill
    
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