Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/29

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Subject: [Leica] Peter Gowland is dead.....
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:26:58 -0500
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I remember seeing his ads in Modern Photography and Popular Photography back 
in the late 60's or early 70's. Sold some real monsters of cameras (TLR 
large format?) that looked to have been fashioned by a sheet metal worker.

Jeffery



On Mar 28, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Frank Filippone wrote:

> don't know if it was reported here or not, but he LA Times had a nice
> article about Peter in today, Sunday's newspaper.....
> 
> Seems his wife did the negative cataloging...and ran the print side of the
> business.... 100K negatives, all LF....
> There were about 1500 Gowlandflex cameras made ( Big Mother TLR)
> 
> Read it here.....
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/yb4tz5n
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> 
> Frank Filippone
> red735i at earthlink.net
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