Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Vick Ko wrote: >> >> I have bought 2 LTM bodies on ebay - no problems with one (IIIg) >> and haven't had time to shoot with the other. >> >> I've bought a R-Leica parts camera - great fun dissecting it. >> >> ...V >> >The French PHOTO came out today and i picked it up and there is a very cool >(blue) shot of Leni Reifenstal with her LTM from 1940. Wish I could >read the french! >A HIRO shot on the cover. >mark rabiner Mark: Can you read German? All bookstores here have a large size, quite thick, new book on Riefenstahl as actor, dancer and photograper. Has the 1940 pic with the LTM and many, many more. It is only about DM 60. Do you want the ISBN? I went to look at a few of the pictures to be auctioned at Villa Griesebach in Berlin on 23rd November. There was an original untitled 1936 10x12" print of a swimmer by Riefenstahl estimated at about 2,000 dollars. Excellent grain and sharpness, which one can not always say about her 1930s pictures. Two other smaller ones by Riefenstahl 9x11" were valued at 800-900 dollars. I did not see the originals of these, just the reproductions in the catalogue, but I wonder why they were cheaper. Grainier? Smaller? They were more of her typical style, the swimmer was not. May explain the price difference. Perhaps they have them on their website www.villa-griesbach.de Chris - -- Christer Almqvist D-20255 Hamburg, Germany and/or F-50590 Regnéville-sur-Mer, France