Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill Larsen wrote: ><Snip> > more powerful is some of his documentary work done during the 40's and 50's. > My real question is "Has the Portland area become one of the centers of > photographic innovation?"><Snip> I think there are about a dozen of us from Portland. Damian Dlugolecki Dave Rodgers Michael Leitheiser Pitak Chenkosol I think Lucian Chis Others are lurkers but i sense their presence. Sorry if i forgot anybody and I have Leica using friends here not on the LUG (yet). We had Minor White here in the 60's and he started a gallery here. We've go Weiden and Kennedy here the most influential and "best" advertising agency in the world here. The fact that they would be located here instead of a major city is bizarre but there you are! Gus Van Sant uses Leicas and is here. Here in Portland besides lots of stuff to shoot we have Powells City of books and Camera world both about 5 blocks from each other. So we have stuff going on. The Columbia River Gorge my be the most seanic spot in the usa and it is mintues from here. The Eastern Oregon high country desert is wonderfull. A film company doing a film in Orgon can reproduce just about any type locale right in here in the same state. It's not just a rainforest anymore! Mark Rabiner