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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ian MacEachern ?
From: Steve Hickel <smhickel@chartermi.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 05:55:22 -0400
References: <B091F22120504B47B062C7C0D9E6FED91F789C@EMS3.umassb.net>

Ian's work is nothing less than an outstanding example of suberb 
technique and a wonderful eye done with rangefinder-style cameras.

His work on photo.net is quite catchy.

Steve

Stuart Phillips wrote:

>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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