Re: [Leica] Mo' Bettah: The 35mm Summicron. Lenses used by Gibson.

[pelliss@isis.univ-nancy2.fr (Dominique PELLISSIER)]

>Check out http://photometro.com/ralph.text.html,  ("Interview with Ralph
>Gibson by Bill Kouwenhoven"), where I found the following passage:
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>"BK: So you use a pair of Leica M6's and four lenses., and over the years
>you've gone from using the 50 at 28inches range and now the 90 and last
>heard, you were using 135. You didn't show a lot of glass either and
>generally the perspective is very, very fine with a lot of control and
>depth of field. That is your signature style. 
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>RG: I would use an Instamatic if I felt it would enhance the work. I'm not
>really dogmatically attached to this or that. I might decide to use a Leica
>Rangefinder, once in a while with a 180 or something, or if I need a super
>close-up, I use a single lens reflex. I have a thousand exercises I do with
>a Leica which I consider to be the purest and simplest of all abstract
>instruments, much the way a violin is a very simple instrument, but
>mastering it is usually complex. You're really narrowing, no pun intended,
>your range of choices when you use a 135. "
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>Dan C.
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>At 10:58 PM 23-10-99 +0200, Dominique PELLISSIER wrote:
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>>It's the first time I read Ralph Gibson uses a 90 MM 80 % of the time.
>>I know quite well Gibson's work. He declared to have used a M with a 50 DR
>>or with a 35. He never pointed out a 90, never
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>NO ARCHIVE

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Thanks for the info.

I'm very surprised and eager to see Gibson's pictures with a 135 !
It's a radical change of style.


Dominique
                      
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