Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Someone mentioned Yul Brynner as a passionate Leica photographer some time ago. I was very surprised when I found his tomb the other day, just about 10 miles from where I am living. He is buried in the Orthodox Monastery of Luze from the 12th century (Abbaye Saint Michel de Bois Aubry). I was told that this has been a "secret" for many years.=20 Yul Brynner was born in Vladivostok, Soviet Union July 11 1920 and died in New York, October 10 1985. According to his last will, his ashes was transferred to this silent place, so far away from the World. There is a simple, beautiful tomb stone, almost Zen, on an open place, and the wind blows even on sunny days. A handful of Orthodox monks and nuns still live and work there. Oddmund =20 PS: I found a short book review... "Yul Brynner: Photographer (Abrams. $39.95) Turns out the late Yul Brynner liked working the other side of a camera, too, so his daughter Victoria Brynner has compiled his photographs into this book. Yul had advantages in this avocation, of course, starting with access to co-stars like Anthony Quinn and Ingrid Bergman (who turns out to be one of his best subjects). But he also shot children =97 famous children, children in refugee camps =97 and= the collective work is not uninteresting."