Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes larry, the story you relate is exact. You can believe me, I was really emoved seeing it, I think I was 10 or 15 minutes looking at it. The Picassos's dream was that this picture was on the Museo del Prado. The democratic gouvernement in Spain after some negotiations with the Picasso's familly and the kind support of the MOMA has finally exhibited it in Spain dedicating a new museum for it and other great painters, now it is also a room dedicated to it. Really impressive and with a great signification not only for us, the Spanish people, I think for all the World! Thanks again for your comments Lluis El 03/01/2010, a las 22:11, Lawrence Zeitlin escribi?: > A grab bag of comments about recent LUG posts. > > Mark, > It would be tough to use the Graflex for photographing carrier > landings if it was anything like the one I used in the early '50s. > Disregarding the fact that you had to reverse your concept of left and > right, it took about half a second for the mirror to flip up and the > shutter to move across the film opening when taking a picture. And if > you didn't have a lens with an auto diaphragm, it took longer. In that > time the plane would have traveled almost 200 feet. The few sports > photographers who used Graflex cameras to film baseball complained > that they had to release the shutter before the pitcher threw the ball > to get a shot of the batter swinging (or not). > > Lluis, > Picasso's "Guernica" was on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art > for a number of years. It occupied a solo room near the wall sized > mural of Monet's "Water Lillies." You could go from wartime chaos to > tranquility in a few steps. Picasso refused to have Guernica hung in > Fascist Spain during WW2. I believe it was returned after his death. > > Tina, > I think my blood would boil at 13,000 feet. About ten years ago my > wife and I contemplated a hut to hut X-C ski trip on the 10th Mountain > Division trail in Colorado. Her brother was a member of that division > and she always considered herself a better skier. We chickened out > when we discovered that all the huts were above 11,000 feet and you > had to ski the trail carrying 50 pounds of supplies. Although we might > have tried if you were standing beside the trail handing out little > bags of candies. > > A belated Happy New Year to everyone. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information