Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Last night I saw Ruth Gruber in a trailer preceding a movie I was about to see. They showed her in Germany with her Leica and collapsible 50 decades ago. And they showed her now. I'll be first in line for the Friday 5 o'clock show next weekend when they open this movie. 'Ahead Of Time' Her books Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent.... are at the top of my reading list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gruber -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: John Edwin Mason <profmason at yahoo.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:26:12 -0700 (PDT) > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] Leica Sighting, Ruth Gruber, NY Times > > Today's New York Times has an interesting article in it about a fascinating > woman. > > Ruth Gruber is best known as a print journalist, but she certainly knew > (and > at 99 still knows) what to do with a camera. > > And she's the subject of a new documentary. > > Here's the article (accompanied by photos showing her with her Leica in > 1941 > and in 2010): > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/movies/05gruber.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper > > http://tinyurl.com/22oo8n3 > > Here's a link to a slideshow of her work. (You'll see that she also shot > squares.): > > http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/09/05/movies/20100905_GRUBER_SS.html?ref > =movies > > http://tinyurl.com/2cf8bjj > > --John > > ****************************** > John Edwin Mason, Photography: > http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com > Charlottesville and Cape Town > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information