Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From Borders books: http://search.borders.com/fcgi-bin/db2www/search/search.d2w/Details?&mediaTy pe=Book&prodID=51360527 (if it is too long, you might need to cut and paste) Tim A > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Michael > Bell > Sent: September 27, 1999 7:46 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Drive By Shooting > > > Did anyone catch the CBS Sunday Morning show this past Sunday? They did a > piece on this New York cab driver who randomly shoots pictures as he is > driving around in his cab. I'm afraid I forget his name, but he has a new > book out called Drive By Shooting. He gets some really remarkable shots > considering most of them are done while he is driving (around NY no less) > and without looking through the viewfinder. > > He uses point and shoot cameras with "really nice Zeiss lenses" according > to the report. I'm not sure what camera that would be. What he used > looked like any old black point and shoot. He's gone through a > few already > having dropped a couple out of the window of his cab and having > spilled too > much food on some. > > He seemed to take photographs so naturally and effortlessly. Even when he > snapped pictures of those in the back of his cab the people > usually did not > know he was taking their picture. > > CBS Sunday morning does pieces on photographers fairly often, I think, but > I am usually not coherent enough that early on Sunday to remember to turn > it on. > > > Michael Bell > MBell@mail.utexas.edu > > > >