[Leica] Dr. Ted on CBC about Kodachrome

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

The year Ted started shooting he's told us on the list a couple of times in
ten year is easy to remember for me because it was the year I was born!
1951.
It was the year DDD David Douglas Duncan came out with: This is War! the
Korean war
Taken perhaps with a Nikor optic on his Leica.
The beginning of some trouble for Leica.

"The second round of HUAC hearings requires witnesses to "name names" of
others they know to be members of the Communist Party or face
unemployment...

Founding of Cahiers du cin?ma, an influential Parisian journal notable for
its politique des auteurs, or celebration of the film director as author and
source of meaning.

W. Eugene Smith?s photo essay, Spanish Village


Here's a great timeline
http://webpages.maine207.org/east/departments/art/literacy%20website/art%20d
ocuments/Photo%20timeline.htm
Or
http://tinyurl.com/ntjtmc



Mark William Rabiner



> From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:30:58 -0500
> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Dr. Ted on CBC about Kodachrome
> 
> 1936? That would have meant Ted was what, 25 or 30?  Kidding.  I have 
> always
> noticed a difference with older clients.  The "older" older folks always
> refer to the past.  The "younger" older clients are concerned about the
> future.  I have an 83 year old patriarch client who is proficient in email
> and keeps up with supply chain and other issues, and involves his second 
> and
> third-level management in these.  That is Ted.  I have never had an email 
> or
> phone conversation talking about the old days.  It is a lesson not
> un-noticed by me.
> 
> Ken
> (Who just added unlimited texting to his cell phone plan, in addition to
> internet and email)