Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Capa
From: Michael Volow <mvolo@duke.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:15:21 -0400 (EDT)
 
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, B. D. Colen wrote:

Hmm. From reading Capa's biography and two of his early books, the 
cameras he used at that time were two Contaxes and a Rollei. Leicas later on.

> am amazing amount of essentially quite mediocre stuff...I think that what
> we either do or ultimately will remember Capa for is having essentially
> been the first "modern" combat photographer, the first to go to the front
> with  a 35 mm camera - Leica, of course - that allowed him to really bring
> the horror and experience of combat to those who would otherwise never know
> 

Michael Volow (mvolo@acpub.duke.edu)
Durham, NC