Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/02

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Subject: [Leica] German interview with Che Guevara photographer
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon Jun 2 11:24:14 2008

And Che himself was a Leica nut there's a picture of him with a Leica and
Viso. A device which has been proven on the LUG by our in house experts to
be completely unwieldy, unjustified and unusable.

....................
Mark William Rabiner



> From: Peter Dzwig <pdzwig@summaventures.com>
> Organization: Summa Ventures Ltd
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:11:24 +0100
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] German interview with Che Guevara photographer
> 
> Che did get used in a Leica banner I once saw. So this is definitely ON 
> target
> ;-)
> 
> Peter Dzwig
> 
> Didier Ludwig wrote:
>> Those who can read german may find this interview
>> with the former magnum photographer Ren? Burri
>> quite interesting:
>> http://tinyurl.com/4fmqyw
>> 
>> He made the famous portrait of Che Guevara with the
>> cigar in the mouth, 1963 in Cuba.
>> 
>> Asked about how much he earned for that picture,
>> (after all reproduced millions of times on wine bottles,
>> condom boxes, bags and many other things) he says,
>> he couldn't afford the lawyers to follow up these
>> things.
>> 
>> No words about the camera used but it was on-topic
>> gear.
>>  
>> Didier
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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