Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] michael Kenna
From: Peter Goldberg <peterg@martinhamblin.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:43:48 -0400

Nick Hunter wrote:

> You asked:
>
> >Off the subject (I'm sure no Leica is involved) does any one know what camera
> >and film Michael Kenna uses?
>
> I had the wonderful experience of taking a workshop with Michael Kenna in
> 1992. At that time, most of his work had been shot with Nikon, but he was
> just starting to use the 'blad. He used it during some of our evening
> shoots; I used my M3, for which he expressed some admiration. He admires
> classic cameras and craftsmanship. Perhaps he might have gone to Leica, but
> probably he feels a larger format is more suitable for the type of work he
> does. Last I heard he was using Tri-X almost exclusively.
>
> Nick Hunter

  Excuse my ignorance - is Kenna author of "The Rouge" ?

Peterg