Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Right you are, Alf. The "Photojournalist" image shows a human head (Stock's, as it happens) with a bright circle of light around the face area. A Leica (LTM, but I don't know which) with a large finder on it is held up to the face, so that the lens is one "eye" and the finder the other. It isn't a portrait, it's a graphic design with the simplicity and clarity Feininger loved. There's a copy in the Time/Life 1970 book, The Camera; I know I've seen it reproduced elsewhere, but that's the one that comes to mind. Perhaps someone else on the list who knows the image can identify the Leica equipment. Bill At 08:51 AM 12/15/97 +0100, Alf wrote: >I just gave a brief on the announcement and the short part of >the interview with Feininger, which tv showed. Certainly, he >has taken pictures of persons also, but he emphazised in the >interview, that he wasn't interested in humans (except some >intelligent ones). He continued, that interest in the subject >were a basic assumption for photography, and that he never took >portraits, because of his lack of interest. >--------------------------------------------------------------- >At 22:03 14.12.1997, pre-father Scorpio Bill wrote left-handed :) > >>Have a look at his mid-1950s picture, "Photojounalist." That's Leica-using >>Magnum photographer Dennis Stock behind that LTM. Dennis told me he was >>Feininger's assistant at the time, and stood in as the model. > >--- snip > >>Or for that matter of a Rolleiflex 3.5F? I was told to update >>my insurance, and wasn't sure what the standard way of determining this is. > > Bill Barrett St. Louis barrettb@webster.edu (preferred address for personal mail) http://www.webster.edu/~barrettb