Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for posting the link - Being Danish I am a bit embaressed that I had not seen it before - I would aggre that he did capture some great pictures showing the strange situation denmark was in - occupied with a collaborate government but with a resistance that gave the germans a hard time and that managed to get a lot of jews over the ?resund to sweden. It is actually being discussed at the moment - if the government as well as the large industries were to eager to cooperate - it is hard to judge 60 years later - how would you react - beeing one of Europes smallest countries standing in front of an enemy the size of Germany ? Anyway great historic pictures ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chandos Michael Brown" <chandos@cox.net> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 7:58 PM Subject: [Leica] An extraordinary collection of 40's Leica images > > Someone in the Photonet Leica forum posted a link to the following site: > > http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.asp?PageID=375480&nr=1 > > Evidently these are images exposed in Copenhagen during the war years, > but only recently processed and scanned. > > The discussion here: > > http://www.leica-camera.com/discus_e/messages/2/135679.html?1117037412 > > suggests that all of these images were made with a Barnack Leica and a > 50mm lens. > > In the event, whether he made them with a IIIc or a No. 1 Kodak Pocket > Special doesn't matter. He was one hell of a photographer. I urge all > of you to have a look at these; simply amazing! > > Chandos > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information