[Leica] Tina Ruisinger (now OT, was Winter in GA)

[Christer Almqvist <chris@almqvist.net>]

Last week I went to the opening of Tina Ruisinger's exhibition 'Faces 
of Photography' in the Altonaer Museum in Hamburg. Tina, who is a 
very pleasant young lady, received a scholarship to finance her 
project to photograph the old star (mostly Leica) photographers of a 
bygone era. Her portrait of Inge Morath was on the invitation card, 
and several of the other photographers have also passed away since 
she photographed them. She worked extensively in the US, and also in 
Europe for this project and a book with the same title as the 
exhibition has just been published by Stemmle. High quality printing 
and paper that corresponds to the black and white pictures.

Tina willingly shared her experience and told me all pictures had 
been taken in available light. These pictures are so entirely 
different from the ones discussed in the thread on Winter in GA. If 
you have a chance to browse through the book, please do so and see 
what one can do with very little equipment. These pictures are so 
superb....

Many of the pictures show the old photographers with their Leicas, 
but Tina used MF for this book. She told me she brought two cameras 
along, but almost all photos were taken with a really old twin lens 
Rolleiflex. That camera was so old and battered she thought it would 
give up any day, and she brought a Hasselblad along as backup, but 
the Rollei just kept functioning.

Available light forced her to work with large apertures, and some of 
the pictures have a depth of field of about a quarter of an inch. But 
she has it in the right place. I was surprised this was possible with 
a twin lens reflex. My favorite picture is a portrait of Feininger, 
and for this she used a close up lens on her Rollei. It is such a 
penetrating picture, but then she did not use the rules supplied in 
the course mentioned in Winter in GA.

New subject: Triennale der Photographie Hamburg 2002 starts on 18th 
April in ten museums and twenty galleries. If you are in Germany 
during that time, why not spend a day or two in Hamburg.

Greetings to all
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Christer Almqvist
D 20255 Hamburg and / or
F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer
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