Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob, You are correct...we hired Jim to shoot that story for us and it was terrific...one of the editorial highlights of the past 10 years. Nissan, and Gohsn, liked it so much they hired Jim to shoot the launch of the Nissan GT-R...sending him not only to Japan for the Tokyo Motor Show (where Jim first sampled my M8...he didn't like it much) and then to the Nurburgring in Germany. Jim produced an amazing set of photos. He was a real car guy...he loved his Mercedes. Roger On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Robert D. Baron <rbaron at concentric.net>wrote: > I subscribed to Autoweek for many many years, beginning back in the > sixties when it was known as Competition Press. I remember seeing > some relatively recent (well, for me that could be w/in the last 10 or > 15 years) articles featuring Marshall's work in Autoweek - one on > Carlos Goshn if memory serves - and I always thought it was an > imaginative and good idea to use him for such work. > > --Bob > > ==On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Roger Hart <rhart76 at gmail.com> > wrote: > > I am the executive editor of AutoWeek, and one of the great joys I've had > in > > this job was meeting Jim and getting to know him. I had spoken with Jim > just > > a couple of weeks before his death and we were working on an upcoming > > assignment. He will be missed. > > > > Roger Hart > > Detroit > > > > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 4:39 PM, John Edwin Mason <profmason at yahoo.com > >wrote: > > > >> Autoweek has just published a very nice gallery of the late, Leica > shooter > >> Jim Marshall's motorsports photos. 17 images. All a worth a look. > Three > >> or four are real gems: > >> > >> http://www.autoweek.com/article/20100408/CARNEWS/100409848 > >> > >> http://bit.ly/bv3Zmj > >> > >> --John > >> > >> ****************************** > >> John Edwin Mason, Photography: > >> http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com <http://www.johnedwinmason.com/> < > http://www.johnedwinmason.com/> > >> Charlottesville and Cape Town > >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >