Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> don't know if it was reported here or not, but he LA Times had a nice > article about Peter in today, Sunday's newspaper..... > > Seems his wife did the negative cataloging...and ran the print side of the > business.... 100K negatives, all LF.... > There were about 1500 Gowlandflex cameras made ( Big Mother TLR) > > Read it here..... > > http://tinyurl.com/yb4tz5n > > > > Frank Filippone > red735i at earthlink.net I once thought about buying a Gowlandflex and visited his studio in LA. It was set in bushland: mainly Aussie eucalypt trees and the studio featured a curved wall in white, so you get endless horizons. I chatted with him for about an hour and he showed me around. Nice guy. A girl turned up hoping to model. She looked "perfect" to me, but she was sent off to see Alice his wife and was next sighted leaving "tail between the legs". Hard taskmaster. Sad to hear he's died, but good innings. Cheers Alastair