Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/21

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Photos of Glynbourne
From: David Prakel <dprakel@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:54:52 -0400

on 21/8/00 12:32 pm, Bob Walkden at owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
wrote:

> I'm trying to trace one of the better-known photographs, which shows a group
> of people in formal evening wear, eating a picnic by candlelight with a
> field full of sheep in the background. I have at home many, many photo books
> which I've searched unsuccessfully for the shot this weekend. I have found
> photos by Cartier-Bresson taken during the interval, and also by Ian Berry,
> but neither is the one I'm looking for. I'm sure the photo is by another
> Magnum photographer.

Could this be the Tony Ray-Jones picture of the Glynbourne couple in the
field of cows and sheep? If so it appears in the Phaidon 'The Photo Book'
ISBN 0 7148 3937 X (small paperback version).

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David Prakel

dprakel@rochester.rr.com