Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Several topics - M-camera object of the century
From: Ed Buziak <ed.buziak@camera-and-darkroom.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:26:22 +0000

The weekend colour supplement of the UK "The Sunday Times" dated 26 December
1999 published "The Cool 100"... basically, a committee of seven design
gurus chose their pick of the century. Amongst their top 20, in no
particular order, on the first double page spread of illos was Marlene
Dietrich, James Dean, The Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, Stilettos, the Gitanes
cig packet... and a LEICA M3 (the only camera in "The Cool 100"), of which
design consultant Stephen Bayley dsaid, "The painstaking efforts required to
compose a picture with a Leica turned Henri Cartier-Bresson from a
photographer to an artist. The quintessence of the genus camera."
 
Ed Buziak / Publisher
"Camera & Darkroom"

ed.buziak@camera-and-darkroom.co.uk

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>From: thomas boehm <toboehm@yahoo.com>
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Several topics - M-camera object of the century
>Date: Wed, Jan 12, 2000, 10:02 am

its not news (just news from mai 1999) but i like to inform LUG-friends:
>the french newspaper "liberation" voted the leica M-rangefinder-camera as
>one of the "objets de siecle" (objects of the century) - beside the
>citroen DS, the electric guitar, the plastic-bag and the nuclear-bomb... ; SNIP