Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/13

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Subject: Re: Los Famosos
From: The astounding Roy Zartarian <royzart@connix.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:12:30 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Robert Brummett wrote:

> other justifiably reknowned light-workers? There's a famous series of pix
> by Adams at Canyon de Chelly (1937?) with a Leica (anybody know what it
> was?) involving Georgia O'Keefe and party, but what do we know about Edward

It wasn't a Leica in Adams' hands. From _Examples - The Making of Forty
Photographs_:
"At one rim-edge I was walking around with my Zeiss Contax and I observed
Georgia O'Keefe . . . "
Elsewhere in the same book, Adams declared a preference for the
operational design of the Contax to the Leica.




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