Re: [Leica] Luc Delahaye's choice of camera

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

John Collier wrote:
> 
> American Photo did a article on the book a short while ago. My rapidly
> failing memory seems to recall he used a Contax G2 set up. Could be wrong
> though, why not go to the library and check?
> 
> John Collier
> 
> > From: "Rory Flynn" <roryflynn@eircom.net>
> >
> > I was reading through Delahaye's "Wintereise" recently and noticed that one
> > of the pictures features a male in what appears to be a hotel bathroom
> > photographing himself in the mirror. The camera is a black rangefinder, the
> > lense is very(?) wideangle (you cannot see the lense itself in the picture).
> > Any idea of what either is?
> >
> > For those of you who havn't seen it, the book is a collection of grim
> > photographs of Russia, many in somewhat lurid colours.
> >
That group of photos was indeed shot with G2 equipment...

B. D.