Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:45 PM 11/18/1999 +0000, Mike Johnston wrote: >Are you guys talking about ANSEL Adams, the American landscape >photographer??? In years of reading about Adams I have _never_ run >across a reference to him owning or using a Leica; neither the words >"Leitz" nor "Leica" rate an entry in the indexes to the Spaulding >biography, the Alinder biography, or Adams's own _Autobiography_; the >sparse few 35mm photographs of his I have ever seen published were all >taken with Zeiss cameras; and when he visited Steiglitz in 1936 he >reports (in the _Autobiography_) taking portraits of Steiglitz with "my >35mm Zeiss Contax." Mike That's all very interesting, but Adams was the primary instructor at the Leica School here in the US for around a decade or fifteen years after the end of the War. The ads Leitz ran (remember those golden days when Leica actually made a serious effort at advertising?) about these schools quoted Adams extolling the Leica RF and the uses he made of it. Look in a LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY (not LEICA PHOTOGRAPHIE, the American pub) of the period for examples, or 35MM or U.S. CAMERA for examples. As to his using the R4, I believe Jim Brick posted a note a while earlier saying he had seen Adams using his R4. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!