RE: [Leica] suburbs

["Tim Atherton" <timphoto@nt.sympatico.ca>]

My one Eggleston book (not a great fan, but I like a little something of
what he does) shows him with a Leica SM (identifiable, but don't ask me
which model...?). Didn't he just shoot on the colour print film of 15/25
years ago - plenty low contrast enough?

Tim A

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark
> Rabiner
> Sent: November 5, 1999 11:59 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] suburbs
>
>
> Disfromage@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 11/05/1999 7:44:43 AM, you wrote:
> >
> > <<> then on most of us up and coming photographers in Portland
> although he
> > shot in
> > > color and was from the South.>>
> >
> > The tricycle was by William Eggleston.  Suburbia by Bill Owens
> was all black
> > and white is worth tracking down.  This thread made me pull it
> off the shelf
> > for another look.  It reminds me of Schaumburg.  It is being
> reissued from
> > new prints and according to Owens (I read an interview with him
> somewhere
> > recently) they are much better than the old prints.  I have a
> feeling that
> > the price may be more than $6.95 that I paid in 1973.  He only
> earned about
> > $1000 from the first edition and hasn't done much photography
> since.  He had
> > to earn a living instead.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Richard Wasserman
>
> Hi Richard! You would think getting discovered by Mr. Z would put
> you up there
> so you would not have to go back to flipping burgers again!
> The Eggleston show I saw at Reed college in "78 had dye transfer
> prints instead
> of C prints so the lights were dimmed.
> They were flat but really had something going for them. But my
> tricycles in
> driveways never came out as good.
> My friend tells me William Eggleston used vintage cameras for
> less contrast.
> Mark Rabiner
>