Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/17

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Subject: [Leica] Arbus revisited
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 15:45:16 -0500 (CDT)
References: <8568D6DE39624BBCBCCD2EE0A1BEB1EA@Bigguy> <C635D71F.4E75D%mark@rabinergroup.com> <200905171921.BQI10492@rg5.comporium.net>

I think Bosworth's biography has been discredited on many key points,  
but I don't know the details.  Needless to say, whether she used a  
Leica or not would be a very key point.


On May 17, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> At 03:00 PM 5/17/2009, you wrote:
>> Found this on photo net:
>> "
>> Diane Arbus never used a Leica for her work.
>> The guy gives off the air of knowing what he's talking about.
>> I mean when you get that specific....
>>
>> Mark William Rabiner
>
> From her biography by Patricia Bosworth:
>
> page 108 ?hated the big 8 x 10 camera; she preferred the Leica.
> page 124 ?anyway-she always had a camera, usually a Leica, in?
> page 127 She would still record the sessions with her Leica for?
> page 195 ? Leica for years, but in 1962 she changed to a Rolleif?
> page 231 ?cameras. She still missed the lightness of her Leica,?
> page 246 ... D I A N E A R B U S novative work with a Leica (that sm?
>
> Searched on Amazon.
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
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