Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/20

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Subject: [Leica] Just back from Cuba
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 21:17:22 -0500
References: <5A3F3CC9-7396-4598-8444-679BAB9BBE93@gmail.com> <000901d01c76$0b9f43d0$22ddcb70$@ca> <BLU436-SMTP3443267070717945735C9DBE690@phx.gbl>
 
A perplexing part of this account is why a man as sophisticated as Castro?s 
personal photographer presumably ought to have been would have been willing 
to sell these negatives for $20 as recently as 20 years ago. Surely, even 
isolated in Cuba, he would have intuited something of their potential worth, 
and Cubans did have contact with many western nations. Wouldn?t it have been 
possible for him to offer them to a responsible foreigner for sale or 
consignment?

?howard


> On Dec 20, 2014, at 8:29 PM, Kevin Argue <kargue at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> Check out the story in todays Daily Mail about missing negs on Cuba from a 
> man in Toronto.
> 
> 
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2881924/Incredibly-rare-pictures-Fidel-Castro-taken-photographer-iconic-Che-Guevara-image-uncovered-Toronto-flat.html
> 
> 
> 
> Kevin
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