Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/18

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Subject: [Leica] looking for a photograph - berlin 1961
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sun Nov 18 18:22:52 2007

Girl's spinning around while playing flute? East German border guard watches
from across the wire?



On 11/18/07 7:43 PM, "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:

> 
> Okay, google has been of no use in locating this image -- I know that YOUR
> collective knowledge is much more useful, so i'll give you the google 
> search
> terms i used (and which produced no useful results, other than a photo of a
> not-so-unattractive young lady playing a flute) and see if you can find me 
> a)
> the image, b) the photographer c) the story behind the photograph. bonus
> points to all if you know what equipment it was taken with.
> 
> Think of it like Quizzo, but without the free beer at the end (okay, if you
> figure it out and i ever run into you, i'll buy the beer). This is what I 
> told
> google:
> 
> 
> berlin, checkpoint charlie, 1961, photograph, boy, soldier, reach, barbed 
> wire
> 
> What photo am I looking for?
> 
> I shall now sit back and await my next digest with 40 messages titled "re:
> kyle cassidy's vast ignorance of famous leica photos astounds me"
> 
> danke!
> 
> kc
> 
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] looking for a photograph - berlin 1961)