Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of Dmitry Medvedev's photos sold at auction for more than one million pounds. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/photoblog/2010/01/the_price_of_a_picture.html is a link to the BBC article and the web page includes a pic of the S2 John Nebel Douglas Sharp wrote: > Some people seem to think that the former Soviet Union is a poor and > backward nation - far from it, the number of the rich, million- and > billionaires is growing fast. Luxury and up-market products are really > big busines there too - Rolex, Chanel, all the big fashion houses, > European luxury mail order catalogues, Audi, Mercedes and many others. > > I wouldn't be at all surprised if Putin hasn't got a Leica or two tucked > away somewhere too. > > And I'm glad to see that Leica have begun to recognise big potential > markets and put the S2 in the hands of people who are better known than > most photographers. (Russia, China and the Gulf States/Emirates are top > of the list). > > Public awareness is not generated by showing people like Salgado with a > Leica - 99% of the world would say ?Who dat?? > > I think we'll soon be seeing more Leicas in the public eye. > > BTW: Seal (the singer - and a good one too) has been closely involved > with Leica for several years and flies the flag for them at almost every > opportunity. He's a damn good photographer, has quite a Leica collection > and is what the Germans call a "Sympathietr?ger" (role model, > ambassador, figurehead, popular figure - none of which are quite right, > but some words just refuse to be translated). > > Cheers > Douglas > > > On 19.01.2010 21:44, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>> Just because he's pres he gets to shoot with an S2?? >>> >>> http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=150131&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=75684997 >>> >>> >>> 734&aid=-1&id=1715283872 >>> >>> >> >> I'm GLAD to see the pres of Russia shooting with a Leica S2 in the >> falling >> snow and interested to see on the lug 4 or 5 real dumb to unintelligible >> things said about it. >> >> >> [Rabs] >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information