Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Robert - if you come up with the discredited parts or Bosworth let us know. I read it and assume that it's true so anything you come up with I'd be interested. ernie nitka On May 17, 2009, at 3:13 PM, <photo.forrest at earthlink.net> wrote: > That's what I was going to say, why does it really matter what > cameras she used? Contax, Nikon, Leica, Mamiya, whatever. She's > Diane Arbus and her images are some of the most beautiful ever made. > She could have used a Diana & they would have been just as powerful. > Its just a box with a hole on one side and a recording medium on the > other. > Phil Forrest > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michiel Fokkema <michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl> > Subj: Re: [Leica] Arbus revisited > Date: Sun 17 May 2009 4:59 pm > Size: 1K > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Who cares? Why a keypoint? > It's the image that counts. > > Cheers, > > Michiel Fokkema > > Robert Meier wrote: >> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.5.329 / Virus Database: 270.12.32/2118 - Release Date: >> 05/16/09 17:05:00 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > --- message truncated --- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information