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Subject: RE: [Leica] Ian MacEachern ?
From: "Stuart Phillips" <Stuart.Phillips@umb.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:23:18 -0400

Where does it say " Leica and other rangefinders are used."?  Alongside
each (excellent) photo it says "Nikon F ()".

Am I missing something?

Stuart Phillips

- -----Original Message-----
From: Paul Chefurka [mailto:paul@chefurka.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 10:26 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Ian MacEachern ?

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 19:09:31 -0400, "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com> wrote:

>I stumbled upon this photographer on photo.net
>http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=130648
>http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=218763
>
>The photos are in the style we often talk about on this list, i.e.
street or
>documentary photography.  Leica and other rangefinders are used.
>From the look of the photos, he must have been around for a while.
>Anybody knows ?  A lot of the photos were taken in and around 
>Midland, Ontario [another incidental Leica connection, just to stay on
topic].

Ian and I were contemporaries in London Ontario in the early and mid
'70s.
He did the documentary/art thing and I shot weddings :-/  He's been a
Leica
fan from the beginning.  I bought his Nikon SP with a 35/1.8 W-Nikkor
that
I still remember fondly.  He's a hell of a good photographer, and from
our
recent exchanges, he's apparently mellowed with age...

My wife was a custom colour printer at a London lab at the time (that's
how
we met) and she did a lot of Ian's printing.  She remembers him as a guy
with a great eye who didn't know shit from shinola about colour printing
:-)  He sure knows his way around a Focomat, though.

I always envied his work, and if I had been a little less youthfully
pigheaded back then I'd have emulated it even more than I did. IMO he
has a
purity of vision coupled with a flawless technique that I'd give a
significant body part to share.

Paul

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