Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/26

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Subject: Re: Ermanox, Salomon, Eisenstaedt
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:26:13 -0600

At 10:22 AM 11/26/97 +0100, you wrote:

>His pictures are famous, and - usually - Erich Salomon is said to be 
>the first modern photojournalist.

According to Cartier-Bresson Andre Kertesz, working with box cameras in
1914, was actually the first photographer to really shoot in the style that
came to be know as street photography, and gave birth to Photojournalism. I
know a lot of other historians who would say the same thing. But Solomon
was the one first cover "policital" issues. And use a high-aperture lens on
a portable camera. So in that sense, you're partly right.
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.