Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2009-10-05-03:23:32 Mark Rabiner: > There's the famous picture of Victor Hasselblad with the camera with his > name on it and Paul Heidecke Mr. Rolleiflex. > http://www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSHmeetsR.aspx That reminds me of the famous photo of Mikhail Kalashnikov and Eugene Stoner meeting (and holding each other's rifles, even, unlike those camera guys). When I saw that picture, Kalashnikov actually having been allowed to travel to the US, and doing so so publicly, I knew something really had changed since the heart of the Cold War. I mean, sure, there was some wall in Germany which got taken apart, but somehow this picture drove it all home in a different way. http://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mikhail_Kalashnikov_and_Eugene_Stoner.jpg I'm having trouble finding a reference to remind me exactly when the picture's from, though. I found one article suggesting it was 1990, which seems plausible.