Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, Glad to see you still read my posts, I didn't know whether I'd been relegated to the instant delete file :-) There's a good essay on the guy which I'm trawling through at the start of the book, it lists his awakening in his photographic style through Evans and then Cartier Bresson so those PJ styles met up with his style in his formative years. Apparently he feels there's much correlation between his guns and his Leica, something which could re-open an old 'hot potato' on this group... He also acquired a Mamiya 6x9 camera and an early Kodak instant camera which may well have been the origin of those '6x6' photos someone mentioned. If we meet again at Photokina this year, bring some asbestos gloves. :-) best wishes, Jem > ---------- > From: Jim Brick[SMTP:jimbrick@photoaccess.com] > Reply To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Sent: 16 February 2000 18:47 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] RE: Eggleston book > > At 04:52 PM 2/16/00 +0000, Jeremy Kime wrote: > >Tina, > >My Eggleston book provides a chronology wherein we discover: > >1937 Born in Memphis, Tennessee > >1957 Acquires first camera, a Canon rangefinder > >1958 Acquires first Leica > > ...and so on until 1990 but no mention of acquiring any other camera > >is noted! I'm sure he'll have got his Hasselblad since 1990 but it seems > his > >Leica was obviously important to him if it got a listing in his > chronology! > > > > best wishes, > > Jem > > Jem, > > You might improve the book by spilling hot coffee on it... > > (inside joke) > > ;-) > > Jim >