Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/03

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Subject: Re: Robert Capa Retrospective
From: "Dave Myers" <myers@bluelake.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 14:17:14 -0400

Dear All...

Just joined the LUG.  It's nice to learn that we have public radio
listeners on board.

Dave Myers
General Manager
Blue Lake Public Radio
Grand Rapids, MI

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> From: Kim Sherman <ksherman@cottenmusic.com>
> To: 'Leica Users Group' <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: Robert Capa Retrospective
> Date: Friday, October 03, 1997 9:51 AM
> 
> Fellow LUG members,
> 
> I'm sitting at home listening to Morning Edition, and they're telling now

> of a new retrospective of Robert Capa's work that is open tomorrow at the

> Philadelphia Museum of Art.  Pictures of war, but pictures of peace as 
> well.  Capa's brother is involved in staging the exhibition.
> 
> NPR did mention (Leica content) that Capa used a "small 35mm rangefinder 
> camera" as he went into the action for his pictures.
> 
> The exhibition will be in Philadelphia through January, then it will head

> to New York, and later, to Massachusetts.
> 
> Kim
> 
>