Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:12 AM 2/17/99 -0800, you wrote: >ounds like you know him personally Eric. How do you know this? Writings or >conversation with Sebatiao. Try Leica's books "75 Years of Leica Photography" and several articles in magazines (Aperture and such) and Leica literature. I know a few people who know him. (Rich Clarkson for one who introduced his work to us at the Missouri Photo Workshop in '87. Said he was the "spiritual" successor to W. Eugene Smith). I know for sure he prefers normal focal lengths and very rarely uses anything longer than 90 or shorter than 28. And his favorite R lens is the 60 macro. One of my favorites of his was shot with a 50 Summicron on an M5. (Woman looking out of a door with a girl with candy apples on a board on her head walking by from Other Americas). (Threw that out for all those M5 fans out there). Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Today's subliminal thought is...