Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] re: dilema now is Eliott Erw
From: Ernest Nitka <enitkamd@twcny.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:40:22 -0500

Would recommend the latest book by Erwitt published by Phaidon called snaps
- - wonderful book.  Talks about how he was able to separate out his
professional work from his private work using M3 , Trix or HP5 and microdol.

Early on in my photography I came to appreciate him though I could see that
he may not have been considered the most serious of the Magnum photographers
- - this book will dispell anyone's opinion on that score.

Ernie nitka

- -- http://home.twcny.rr.com/nitka



On 12/25/01 9:05 AM, "Dave Jenkins" <djphoto@vol.com> wrote:

> Phil Marcus wrote:
> 
> "I wonder what Elliot Erwitt did when he was shooting? Seems like he
> made a living as a commercial photographer and picked up a large library
> of personal pictures in the cracks."
> ________________________________________________________
> 
> That's pretty much what he did. He always scheduled time around his
> assignments to do his own photography.
> 
> In the book "Elliot Erwitt: The Private Experience," published around
> 1974 as part of the Masters of Contemporary Photography series, his
> working outfit is pictured: a Fiberbilt padded case with two or three
> Canon F-1 bodies and every FD lens from 17mm to 300mm.
> 
> Another photo in the book shows him working with a 4x5, probably a
> Linhof. However, his preferred commercial working system seems to have
> been 35mm. For his personal pictures, he appears to have used a
> III-series Leica until well into the M era, and stated that he liked the
> collapsible lenses because they were pocketable.
> 
> His work has influenced me deeply and I personally consider him one of
> the greatest photographers of the second half of the 20th century.
> 
> Dave Jenkins
> 
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