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Subject: [Leica] Arbus revisited
From: charcot at comcast.net (Charcot)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 16:42:57 -0600
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Robert - if you come up with the discredited parts or Bosworth let us  
know.  I read it and assume that it's true so anything you come up  
with I'd be interested.

ernie nitka
On May 17, 2009, at 3:13 PM, <photo.forrest at earthlink.net> wrote:

> That's what I was going to say, why does it really matter what  
> cameras she used? Contax, Nikon, Leica, Mamiya, whatever. She's  
> Diane Arbus and her images are some of the most beautiful ever made.  
> She could have used a Diana & they would have been just as powerful.  
> Its just a box with a hole on one side and a recording medium on the  
> other.
> Phil Forrest
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From:  Michiel Fokkema <michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl>
> Subj:  Re: [Leica] Arbus revisited
> Date:  Sun 17 May 2009 4:59 pm
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> To:  Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>
> Who cares? Why a keypoint?
> It's the image that counts.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michiel Fokkema
>
> Robert Meier wrote:
>> I think Bosworth's biography has been discredited on many key points,
>> but I don't know the details.  Needless to say, whether she used a  
>> Leica
>> or not would be a very key point.
>>
>>
>> On May 17, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>>
>>> At 03:00 PM 5/17/2009, you wrote:
>>>> Found this on photo net:
>>>> "
>>>> Diane Arbus never used a Leica for her work.
>>>> The guy gives off the air of knowing what he's talking about.
>>>> I mean when you get that specific....
>>>>
>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>
>>> From her biography by Patricia Bosworth:
>>>
>>> page 108 ?hated the big 8 x 10 camera; she preferred the Leica.
>>> page 124 ?anyway-she always had a camera, usually a Leica, in?
>>> page 127 She would still record the sessions with her Leica for?
>>> page 195 ? Leica for years, but in 1962 she changed to a Rolleif?
>>> page 231 ?cameras. She still missed the lightness of her Leica,?
>>> page 246 ... D I A N E A R B U S novative work with a Leica (that  
>>> sm?
>>>
>>> Searched on Amazon.
>>>
>>> Tina
>>>
>>> Tina Manley
>>> www.tinamanley.com
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