Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I always factor in the human component. However, I get really > irritated with the holier than thou attitudes of the privileged. > S.d. He was an anarchist. And a surrealist And he escaped from the Nazi prisoner of war camps 3 times. And he''s the street photographer all others are measured against. I'd cut him a little slack. And he used Leicas. After his third escape: " In France, he worked for the underground, aiding other escapees and working secretly with other photographers to cover the Occupation and then the Liberation of France. In 1943, he dug up his beloved Leica camera, which he had buried in farmland near Vosges." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson Mark William Rabiner