Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Quoth the Nathan Wajsman : > In Weston's time the development of lenses and cameras was very > slow, so there was much less need and possibility to buy new stuff. There's also that after he quit doing retouched portraiture, about the time he moved to Mexico, Weston spent most of the rest of his life living hand-to-mouth; he records in his Daybooks on several occasions that he had to pawn lenses to pay the rent so as not to be evicted. Artistically he was a great success, but financially he seems to have bounced back and forth between disaster and crisis for most of his working life. Solvency was a sometime thing -- extra money for gear was almost always nonexistent. -- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request