Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] posing
From: <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 20:24:44 -0800
References: <3C096766.1C5B7805@markrabiner.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20011201210751.028e4190@infoave.net>

Tina Manley writes:
 > OK, Guys -
 > 
 > You know as well as I do that there are professional photographers who use 
 > Leicas instead of posing with them.  [...]

Do I get bonus points for tying into *two* threads (posers and
interesting magazines)?

The current issue of Photo Insider has an Interview of Matt Rainey by
James Cotter.  Matt's a staff photographer at the Star-Ledger, New
Jerseys "largest paper".  He won a Pulitzer for a series titled "After
the Fire", about two students injured in a dormitory fire at Seton
Hall.  In the beginning of the interview, he talks about getting
started at the hospital and says

  "[...] I took a Leica M6 and four folls of film, stuffed them in my
   jacket, and walked in"

The interview is interesting and the photo's are very moving.  It
seems to me that he really put his heart and soul into the project and
it seems that the "quiet, unobtrusiveness" of the M's is something he
knows how to use intentionally.

On the magazine front, I enjoy Photo Insider a lot.  It focuses on how
and why the photographers work, w/out too detail about the gear or the
technology.

g.
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In reply to: Message from Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com> (Re: [Leica] posing with the gold lizardskin Leica)
Message from Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> (RE: [Leica] posing)