[Leica] Ted's park bench advice

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

Paul Strand used a prism on the lens
to appear to be pointing the camera 90 degrees from the subject
in some of his "street" portraits in Egypt.
<http://www.franklinbooks.com/servlet/the-2099/Living-Egypt-by-Paul/Detail>

I agree with the potential of achieving discretion
with this approach and mentioned and illustrated it here
<http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=3316>
re: using 135 mm on M8 with viso and right angle view finder
(some would say 135 = 180 on M8)

thanks for the Shahn link
love his photo, pencil and brush approach to visual expression.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
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On Aug 30, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> Shahn took a number of memorable street type photos using a Leica right
> angle finder during the depression.
> 
> <http://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/john_edwin_mason_photogra/2010/03/shahn-leica-right-angle-viewfinder.html>