Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/13

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Subject: RE: [Leica] alistair's lost leica photographer found (was re: loo king for book [about 2 months ago])
From: "Stewart, Alistair" <AStewart@gigaweb.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:02:17 -0500

Kyle,

Greetings from the arctic tundra formerly known as the midwest.

Indeed you are correct in your recollection. I found it a while back; you
might have been off the LUG when I posted my success. Thanks anyway for your
kind and thoughtful response.

Carpe lunem (unless using Noctilux).

Alistair

- -----Original Message-----
From: kyle cassidy [mailto:cassidy@hector.asc.upenn.edu]
Sent: None
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] alistair's lost leica photographer found (was re:
looking for book [about 2 months ago])


about 2 months ago alistair stewart (i _think_ it was him) posted looking
for a book by a leica photographer:

1) german photographer
2) took mostly photos of his wife
3) his wife comitted suicide

i think i've found at least the photographer, Seiichi Furuya a japaneese
born immigrant to austria, who has a nice full length shot of his wife
(complete with a lovely chrome M3 around her neck) on
page 179 of "the model wife" (arthur olman editor, find it on amazon). his
wife, Christine Gossler, was in and out of mental hospitals throught the
course of her troubled life and by page 196 of "the model wife" has lept
from a 9 story apartment building in east berlin. we see a tiny
photograph of her (presumably taken from the rooftop) lying face down on a
patch of dirty green grass, looking quite dead, surrounded by police
officers.

furuya has a book called "memories" of which i know nothing but can only
assume it must be the book alistair (or someone else) was looking for.
amazon has it for $35.

seek and ye shall find, as they say.

kc

- --
how's you're new years leicaloution going? check out mine:
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/pad