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Subject: [Leica] Ted's Leica Gallery show
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:20:44 +0200
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Thanks for sharing these, Larry. I did recognise a few of the people in your 
pics.

Cheers,
Nathan

On 25 Apr 2014, at 19:05, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote:

>       Thanks to Tina and others for showing pictures taken at Ted's show 
> in the Leica Gallery. They were basically portraits of participants and, 
> since I didn't know many pf the people, did not adequately capture of the 
> feeling of the event for me. Eventually I did have the opportunity to meet 
> several photographers whose names and pictures were familiar to me on the 
> LUG. I arrived at the gallery just before 6 p.m. and unfortunately I had 
> to leave before the end of the reception to catch my train back upstate.?
>       The Leica Gallery is a rather small venue occupying a suite of 
> several rooms on the fifth floor of an old New York office building. It is 
> well lit with plenty of wall space, adequate for showing photographs, but 
> too small for a modern art gallery. Seventy of Ted's photographs were on 
> display including most of the highlights from his 60 years of work as a 
> photojournalist. They were of a very high order. Clearly he deserves the 
> accolades that have been heaped upon him.
>       Surprisingly for a photographer whose most quoted statement is a 
> denigration of color photography, a notable fraction were in color. Also a 
> number would not meet the critical standards of sharpness and precision 
> lauded in the LUG. But all were interesting and worthy of a second and 
> even third look. Clearly "CONTENT IS KING." Ted is a true photojournalist 
> whose pictures tell a story.
>       Before I left I snapped a number of pictures of people viewing the 
> show with a credit card sized P&S camera, a tiny Canon 780. I don't know 
> how many were LUG members since I was told that the Leica Gallery has a 
> number of walk ins most evenings. My camera was lost amongst the many 
> Leica cameras hung around the necks of visitors. Here are the pictures in 
> no particular order. They give a bit of the flavor of the event.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Leica+Gallery+1.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Leica+Gallery+2.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Leica+Gallery+3.jpg.html?
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Leica+Gallery+4.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Leica+Gallery+5.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Leica+refreshment+table.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Grand+Central+concourse.jpg.html
> Larry Z
> 
> 
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