[Leica] "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?"

[Gerry Walden]

That is a pretty awe-inspiring record Ted. I would be very happy if I felt that I had achieved a mere 1% of that.

Gerry


> On 5 Dec 2015, at 01:09, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> To-day at lunch I was asked by a chap I'd just been introduced to.
> 
> "What have you done as a photographer? I don't seem to re-call any photo
> credits?" He asked.
> So I gave him a little list which he found rather interesting.
> What think you? ? :-) 
> 
> Dang it was a great life, too bad they end. :-(
> 
>    * Chernobyl Children-Russia/Ukraine
>    * Hawaii-The Islands
>    * Bullfighting-Spain, Weekend Magazine
>    * NATO exercises-Norway, National Film Board of Canada
>    * Oil Airlift-Congo/Zambia, The Canadian Magazine.
>    * Six Day War-Middle East 1967, Star Weekly Magazine
>    * Vietnam 1968, Weekend Magazine
>    * Industrial Empire-Japan, National Film Board of Canada
>    * Summer Olympic Games- Munich 1972, Montreal 1976, Los Angeles 1984,
> Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992
>    * Winter Olympic Games- Lake Placid 1980, Sapporo 1972, Calgary 1988,
> Albertville 1992
>    * The French Riviera - Nice, France, Weekend Magazine
>    * Oktoberfest-Munich, Germany, Weekend Magazine
>    * Rome/Athens: Cities of the Old World. Canadian Pacific
> Airlines
> 
>    * The Right to Die: Sue Rodriguez, This Country Canada    Magazine.
> This merely touches the total with 99.9% shot with Leica's of some kind
> creating a collection of  280,000 images in the Canadian National Archives.
> And another 100,000 in the National Art Gallery of Canada.
> I trust you find this a bit interesting as I've posted it due to the chaps
> question, as some of you may have wondered also. 
> cheers,
> Dr. ted  :-) 
> 
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