[Leica] "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?"

Steve Barbour steve.barbour at gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 09:34:57 PST 2015


dear Ted, 



now both you and I know you couldn’t have done even half this stuff, you are exaggerating ! 



please cut it out.





Steve



(oops, sent to the whole list by accident.)







> Le 5 déc. 2015 à 02:09, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> a écrit :
> 
>> 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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