Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/11/04

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Subject: [Leica] George Bernard Shaw used a Leica
From: boulanger.croissant at gmail.com (Peter Klein)
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2025 02:09:54 -0800

A Facebook group posted a 15 year-old Guardian article about playwright 
George Bernard Shaw's lifelong interest in photography. He began with 
large format and wet plates in the late 1870s.
<https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2010/sep/07/george-bernard-shaw-photographs>

...and in the 1930s, he was using an early Leica.
<https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b8/f0/05/b8f0050381edffecb6f318a3ecba52e2.jpg>

In the Facebook thread, one Michael Dembinski remarked that "GBS 
described photography using a small-negative camera like the Leica as 
being like producing 'frog-spawn'. Looking for this quote, I asked 
Google AI, which helpfully told me that "Shaw was a keen amateur 
photographer who owned a Leica M Monochrom "

Nice try, AI. Although, come to think of it, Shaw was a friend of H.G. 
Wells. So perhaps he used Wells' time machine.

--Peter


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