Re: [Leica] Maroon Photos

[Bill Welch <welch@pressroom.com>]

I know Fred a bit too and did a magazine story on him a few years ago. You
definitely should see his work if you get the opportunity. Fred produced a
number of Leica brochures for the company in the 80s, as I recall, all
shot, of course, with Leicas. 

His previous two books were on the architecture of the Supreme Court and
U.S. Capitol buildings. Fred shot them all with his Leica Rs, and they are
startling examples of the high quality attainable through exacting
technique. Fred used a truckload of hot lights to light the Capitol  for
his project, an extraordinary feat even without all the hoops you must jump
through to  work in that building.

Fred is an architect by training. He did a lot of 60s magazine work for
Life, Look, Sat Evening Post, etc. including fashion and travel as well as
Washington reportage. One of my favorites of his is a black and white image
of Robert Kennedy conducting a Senate hearing, shot with the 21mm on an M. 

Bill Welch


At 05:59 PM 8/11/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Larry and Everyone Else: If you ever get the chance to see Fred or attend one
>of his lectures, DON'T MISS IT! I count him as my #1 mentor. Did a class with
>him in Florida and had him in as a speaker at the SC Convention in 89. The
man
>is a fountain of Knowledge. He has 9-12 coffee table books out and they are
>all done with the Leica. In fact he did the work for the National Geographic
>on the English Country Homes (Later a book "The English Country Manor Home-A
>tapestry of the Ages" (I think that is the correct title-it's close) The
story
>goes that they wanted him to shoot it with 4x5 so he took the Linhof and his
>Leica's. He shot it both ways and sent some of the early takes in for an
>evaluation by the NG staff. They told him to use the Leica's as they couldn't
>see any appreciable difference for what they were wanting to do. The book is
>beautiful. I believe his showing (which will run till Dec)  is at the
>Smithsonian, it opened last month. The details are in one of the last issues
>of Leica Fotographie, or was it Leica View?
>
>BTW anyone who is shooting with the Elinchrom Strobes, their trigger voltage
>is
>set at 15 volts regardless of the unit your using.
>
>LArry thanks for the update- I'm going right now to get a copy of the mag.
>
>Cheers Wilber
>Larry Kopitnik wrote:
>
>> In the latest Newsweek magazine is a five page spread of photos taken by
>> Fred Maroon during the Nixon years in the White House. They're from a book
>> being published next month of photos Maroon took at that time, with
>> unprecedented access to Richard Nixon and his White House, but now being
>> seen for the first time.
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>> Maroon was interviewed last weekend on NPR's (National Public Radio) All
>> Things Considered about these photos (I believe they're also on display in
>> Washington). During the interview, he said that to remain as inconspicuous
>> and unobtrusive as possible, he used his quietest camera, a Leica M, for
>> the shots.
>>
>> Larry
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