Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/10

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Subject: [Leica] IMGs: 1 man, 1 Leica, 1 right-angle viewfinder
From: hewthompson at mac.com (Hugh Thompson)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:22:00 +0430
References: <193945.33961.qm@web111719.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
 
Fascinating article, John, thank you.

Hugh

On 10-Mar-10, at 7:44 PM, John Edwin Mason wrote:

> Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Ben Shahn, a man who loved  
> his Leica.
>
> He's best known as one of the twentieth century's most significant  
> painters.  For about a decade, he was an important photographer.
>
> He owed it all to his buddy Walker Evans, who turned him on to  
> photography, and to his Leica, often equipped with a right-angle  
> viewfinder.
>
> Some photos from the '30s:
>
> http://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/john_edwin_mason_photogra/2010/03/shahn-leica-right-angle-viewfinder.html
>
> http://bit.ly/d55Zkz
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