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Subject: [Leica] Film story Leica Copy Story Russia 1993
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:39:25 -0700
References: <CAF8hL-EKf3xa9=GGSm6RTDApXCyyNXSH=7bLY+KPp2r7ER+0tA@mail.gmail.com> <2D2F699B-A2E7-4D06-BE39-D901D18BDC08@teleport.com>

I'd love to see those pics!!!


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Mark Kronquist <mak at teleport.com> wrote:

> In 1993, I was in Moscow when Yeltsin dissolved parliament and there was
> great unrest (tanes AK74WASRs, etc) shot many photos with Feds and Zorkis 
> as
> was not kosher to look western where the unrest was. Went to GUM purchased
> all the TACMA ISO 64 B&W they had. Insisted the poor guy sell me all his
> cassettes (at the time film was spooled and wrapped with foil and inserted
> in the outer shell. Which was reused  no time to do that with tanks)
> Purchased developer and fixer used vitamin C as stop as was unsure of water
> pH)......loaded shot great pix developed and dried in hotel Cosmos room.
> Rolled negs tightly, hollowed out insoles put negs in insoles (was unsure
> who was going to come out on top) Out through Warsaw then Amsterdam into US
> at MSP.
>
> Got pulled aside.
>
> Got escorted to little room by a polite but very firm woman
>
> I was unsure why. Two armed men joined her.
>
> They pulled out my shoes and asked if I wanted an attorney present. I said
> no.
>
> I am sure they were expecting the idiot of the week smuggling cigar size
> joints in his insoles for heaven's sake...
>
> The disappointment on their faces was priceless as they pulled out a dozen
> rolls of tightly round film...
>
> They looked at it (last ditch hope for porn? who knows)
>
> Asked me to confirm where I had been (look dude you have my passport check
> the stamps)
>
> Need to dig those out and print them
>
>
> Mark in PDX
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:34 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>
> > I read a story of, I think, Magaret Bourke-White that she took truckload
> of
> > film and developer when she was shooting in Russia and developed the film
> in
> > the hotel rooms.
> >
> > But this got that beat:
> > http://www.insidescience.org/current-affairs/like-no-other-view-on-earth
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/>
> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/>
> > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com>
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