[Leica] Selling gear

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> Quoth the Nathan Wajsman :
> 
>> In Weston's time the development of lenses and cameras was very
>> slow,  so there was much less need and possibility to buy new stuff.
> 
> There's also that after he quit doing retouched portraiture, about
> the time he moved to Mexico, Weston spent most of the rest of his
> life living hand-to-mouth; he records in his Daybooks on several
> occasions that he had to pawn lenses to pay the rent so as not to be
> evicted.  Artistically he was a great success, but financially he
> seems to have bounced back and forth between disaster and crisis for
> most of his working life.  Solvency was a sometime thing -- extra
> money for gear was almost always nonexistent.
> 


He got a Guggenheim.


Mark William Rabiner
markrabiner.com