Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/31

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]
Subject: Re: R: [Leica] Noctilux
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 14:14:10 -0500
 
At 01:19 AM 31-01-98 -0600, Eric wrote:
>That's right. I have a story about that. Guido Mattoni hired
>Cartier-Bresson to shoot a story on Portugal for Epoca Magazine (Italy's
>equivalent of Life back then). By the way, Guido told me this story
>personally. He said Cartier-Bresson went to Portugal and shot two rolls of
>Ektachrome for the magazine. Yes, two rolls. And out of 72 frames of film,
>there was 70 that could be used in the magazine.

Without denigrating HCB (I think he's one of the greatest photographers), I
suspect that he could walk into pretty well any magazine and get two rolls
of toilet paper published, such is his reputation.

Dan C.