Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sheer poetry, Mark. And Kavlar's photos are indeed in a leaugue of their own. Philippe Op 19-sep-07, om 18:27 heeft Mark Rabiner het volgende geschreven: > http://www.magnumphotos.com/archive/C.aspx? > VP=Mod_ViewBoxInsertion.ViewBoxIn > sertion_VPage&R=2K7O3RHMJYCF&RP=Mod_ViewBox.ViewBoxThumb_VPage&CT=Albu > m&SP=A > lbum > > > This Leica thread is a Stub. > Feel free in enlarge upon it yourself. > Feed it. Its short. > > I went to the opening last night at the Leica Gallery on Broadway in > Greenwich village of prints by Richard Kalvar. > His prints looked great and it was nicer seeing them then seeing > his slides > last October for the LHSA thing in Wetzlar. > It was like seeing the originals. > And with no jet lag. > And the lights on. > Talked to a guy from Montauk point for two hours. > > I forsook my skinny LowePro Sling 100 and crammed a Nikon D40x with > 45mm > sliver Cosina pancake on it into a Domke F-5XB Shoulder/Belt Bag > (Black) > with very few odds and ends and traveled light; nothing over my > shoulder and > No room for a Russian Novel. > > I feel less safe walking down dark streets with the D40 you can't > defend > yourself with it. A D200 you can. Its heavier than a M6 with a > motor drive > and 40mm Summicron which I'll be carrying with me next week. > Probably to the Nikon Gallery opening. > > > I stood right next to Elliot Erwitt he could have been HCB I'd have > been no > less excited. Last time I was there it was Ralph Gibson. Same deal > only it > was in the back room as I was sitting down getting ready for an > appendicitis > attack a few days later. > I wanted to tell Elliot Erwitt how he changed my thanksgivings > forever. > A documentary I saw on him decades ago took you though his house > and studio > much of it given up to film making (movies) and at one point it was > thanksgiving. And they had a turkey at one end of the long table > and a ham > at the other. I said "lets to that" and we did! > For several years. > > Love Elliot Erwitt's dogs. > > Kalvar shoots a few dogs himself. > > There's as many dogs around here as people. > They are always gleefully happy. But seem a little guilty looking like > they're getting away with something and they hope no one notices. > Like "this much fun can't be legal" kind of thing. > > That's me in Greenish Village. > > > Oops the Nikon House in Rockefeller center seems to have gone the > way of the > Dodo. Its hard when you cater to a niche market. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dodo_1.JPG > > http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?shs=Domke+f5xb > +bag&ci=0&sb=p > s&pn=1&sq=desc&InitialSearch=yes&O=RootPage.jsp&A=search&Q=*&bhs=t > > Mark William Rabiner > rabinergroup.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >