Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/26

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Subject: [Leica] Stories
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sun Dec 26 19:37:43 2004

Odd, isn't it, that he was reduced to using a Minolta, (retch at the
thought) and yet produced images that any of us would kill to be able to
produce with our best Leica gear?  ;-)

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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Slobodan Dimitrov
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 9:52 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Stories


Feli;
It's 35mm. But what's really depressing, is how destitute he was near 
the end. All the good gear was sold off some time prior to the Minamata 
shoot. I believe, he was reduced to using a Minolta (retch at the 
thought) during this period.
It reminds of a few beat era poets, that didn't 'make it' who lived in 
Venice, CA. I knew some, with more than a dozen published books, who 
were cleaning Porta Potties to make ends meet.
S. Dimitrov


On Dec 26, 2004, at 6:38 PM, Feli di Giorgio wrote:

>
> On Dec 26, 2004, at 3:54 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:
>
>> It is all that and more, Neal - Knowing Smith, and the era, it may
>> well
>> have been posed, but so was the original Pieta, so what the heck..
;-)
>
> According to the book, at some point during his stay he decided that
> he wanted to take a shot of the mother bathing the child. Seems 
> perfectly reasonable since he was all over their house, and the entire

> village, day and night. So, he examined the location before the shoot 
> and took some meter readings. At this point he set up two small 
> flashes for fill light. Perhaps a day later, Smith joined them during 
> bath time. Supposedly he only took a few shots, because he felt he was

> intruding on something very private, but knew it when he had taken 
> that one. I'm curious what format it was shot on. 35? 6x6? 6x7?
>
> Has anyone ever seen this picture as a real print?
>
> Feli
>
>
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