Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/14

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Am I Wrong ? or Steve McCurry's photograph
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 07:52:46 -0800

Phong,

That was a picture from a few years ago.  Subsequently, National Geo (I
believe) tried to find the beautiful subject but were unable to locate her.
Apparently she is missing.

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: phong (Doan huu Phong) [mailto:phong@doan-ltd.com]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 1998 8:10 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: Am I Wrong ? or Steve McCurry's photograph


Hi Dick,

    I too saw the picture.

    I don't know about Nikon equipment, but the picture of the Afghan
    refugee  with her beautiful,  piercing, haunting eyes, is certainly
Steve
    McCurry's.  It graces the cover of National Geographic The Photographs.
    (Is she looking into the conscience of mankind ?).  I wonder if Steve
    McCurry/Nikon/National Geographic secured a model release to use
    her picture in this commercial advertisement.

- - Phong


From: "Richard W. Hemingway" <rheming@ibm.net>
>  I was reading the January issure of (ugh) Pop Photo and on p. 17 is saw a
>  picture of a young girl at the upper left purported (implied?) to have
been
>  taken by Steve Mc Curry with Nikon equipment.
>
>  Am I wrong, or haven't I seen this same picture in some of the Lieca
>  publications as being taken with Lieca equipment??? The ad copy doesn't
say
>  it was taken with Nikon or that Mr. McCurry took it (which I imagine he
did).