Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/15

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Subject: [Leica] News from Leica Gallery, NYC
From: LeicaPhoto@aol.com
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:49:29 EDT

The show of George Rodger's work (the largest retrospective ever held in the 
U.S.) is currently on at Leica Gallery through Saturday 23 June. Two of his 
books, signed by his widow, are available. Also, we have during the same time 
a collection of about 20 Marilyn Monroe pictures by Magnum photographers on 
exhibit to coincide with the 40 th anniversary of The Misfits movie. The new 
book by Phaidon is available not signed or signed by Bruce Davidson, Inge 
Morath and Eliott Erwitt or signed by Inge Morath and Arthur Miller. Nest 
show opens Wednesday, 27 June (reception 5  to 8 pm) Erich Hartmann (Magnum): 
A Memorial Retrospective entitled "Where I Was: Personal Photographs" The 
eponymous book (hardcover) published in English from a printer in Salzburg 
has a preface by the both of us which we will be happy to sign and is also 
signed by his widow, Ruth Hartmann. You can get it at the exhibition (thru 11 
August) or by email, fax, etc. (it's $50.) The gallery closes for the summer 
after the Hartmann show and opens after Labor Day (6 September opening - 
reception on 12 September from 6 to 8pm) with an exhibition of Marc Riboud 
(Magnum) in honor of his receiving Leica's Lifetime Achievement Award, which 
will be given to him on 12 September by Leica Camera AG at the gallery. There 
will also be a book-signing with Marc Riboud on saturday 8 September from 2 
to 4, to sign his newly republished retrospective book. The book can also be 
sold via email, etc. but will not be ready until September for the signature. 
Remember that we have copies of Erwin Puts The Leica Lens Compendium ($64.95) 
and Hunecke and Eastland's books on the M6TTL ($42.95 and 39.95 respectively) 
+ Eastland's M Compendium as well as the books by Bower and of course the 
handbooks for the R6, R7, R8 and about any other Leica /photography book you 
may want including Osterloh's Applied Leica Technique on the R cameras (one 
copy left at $175.) We're at 670 Broadway, Suite 500, NYC 10012. FAX 
212-777-3051/tel:212-777-3051 and we're here to answer questions Tues-Friday 
11 to 6 and Sat 12 to 6. Warm regards, Rose and Jay Deutsch