Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/07

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Subject: Re: Cartier-Bresson's Summarex !!
From: Lucien <100774.527@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 07 Mar 97 12:37:52 EST
 
Thomas Knoles wrote:

<Beaumont Newhall's _Photography: Essays and Images_ (1980) includes an
<article on Henri Cartier-Bresson by Newhall which originally appeared in
<_Popular Photography_ in 1947...............
<........Newhall's book _Focus_, which I had out of the public library a few
months
<ago, tells the story of HCB offering a fast new lens (Summarex?  Xenon?, I
<don't remember now) to Newhall to try.  If I remember correctly, Newhall
<put it on his Leica and made a portrait of HCB with it.


A Summarex 85 1,5.

Lucien