Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Welcome William, Very nice corpus of work of a subject that interests me a lot? All the best from Paris! Tarek ------------------------------------------------- Tarek Charara <http://www.tarekcharara.com> NO ARCHIVE Le 18 mars 2012 ? 19:38, William Carter a ?crit : > Hello LUG: > > William Carter here. By way of introduction, I've had a 50+-year > 5-continents career as a photographer and author, shooting most of my > photos with Leicas. Been published in LIFE, the London Sunday Times, > Geographical Magazine and others.1966-69 freelanced from London, doing > assignments for New York Times, Women?s Wear Daily, and TWA?s Annual > Report, etc. I've authored 5 books of photographs and text including > Ghost Towns of the West, Middle West Country, Preservation Hall, > Illuminations (nudes), and my latest (came out last summer) published > by Steidl, Causes and Spirits. > > A lot of my work is online at http://wcarter.us but I will be posting > on your gallery as well. I have a blog at > http://bywilliamcarter.wordpress.com where I use some of my work and > other graphic elements > > My long closeup love affair with the Leica M-series began with an > equally passionate long-distance love affair with one of its most > famous users, Henri Cartier-Bresson. (I tell the story of my > non-meeting with Henri in Causes and Spirits and in the occasional > readings at bookstores I have been doing.) Most of that book was shot > with M-3's and M-2's; I still only have an M-4 with motor drive but > sadly don't use it; I am only shooting digital these days. I have > twice visited the shrine/factory in Wetzlar/Solms, Germany. > > I like the idea of the user group but am constitutionally not a group > sharer or communicator, or tech savvy, cannot get into those > exchanges, sorry about that. My current blogging has been on the > subject of tribalism, which I witnessed professionally worldwide as a > photographer/writer. Please see "Them vs. Us and Beyond" at > http://bywilliamcarter.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/them-vs-us-and-beyond/ > The photo, which is on the cover of the current The Sun Magazine, is > of a Yemeni tribesman taken in 1964 while I was living in Beirut. > > So do I belong to the Leica tribe? Probably not. I use my beat-up > cameras close up, I do not worship them from afar. > > Best, > > William Carter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information