Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/07

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Subject: [Leica] Herbert List - General catalog
From: "Bernard Degaute" <bernard.degaute@club.innet.be>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 12:16:03 +0100

Hi all

In the last (french edition at least) of the Leica general catalog there is
a picture of a fish in its globe. The photographer was Herbert List
(1903-1975) and the picture was also published in "75 years of photography -
Leica".
A few days ago a documentary has been broadcast on Arte, a (considered as
very) serious French-German TV. It was said that this photograph was made
with a Rollei and that H. List discovered Leica (M body) several years later
only.
So who is wrong? How many Rollei, Hassie, Sinar, Linhof photographs in the
Leica catalogs??? :<
I think that the most important is the subject and the quality of the
picture, of course, but any comment about this?


Bernard

bernard.degaute@village.uunet.be