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Subject: [Leica] LIFE, The Babe & a gear question
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:26:49 -0400

I actually ripped this picture off in the studio.
The split backdrop making for an dark side and a light side was to enticing
to pass up. I got some mileage out of it. And not seen others do it.
The Babe for sure had a dark side.

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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:22:53 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] LIFE, The Babe & a gear question
> 
> http://imagenes.publico.es/resources/archivos/2009/3/27/1238159343824moma13g
> d.jpg
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/2g4lqcl
> 
> This one is my favorite shot of the Babe or anybody.
> Babe Ruth, Nikolas Muray, c. 1927
> It looks like he's about to take the whole room apart with that bat.
> Read what john Szarkowski says about it in Looking at photographs.
> And indispensable book. Perfect for bathroom reading. Like time Magazine.
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> mark at rabinergroup.com
> 
> 
>> From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:08:54 -0700
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] LIFE, The Babe & a gear question
>> 
>> Wow, I actually never knew until now that Babe Ruth died from cancer. 
>> Having
>> lived in NYC and Boston area for a total for 19 years, I knew a bit about
>> him, but I guess not much at all.
>> 
>> Gears aside, who think Ralph's picture (image 7) is better than Nat 
>> Fein's?
>> I think it's often said that Net Fein's picture is so powerful precisely
>> because Babe's face was not visible, but would Nat Fein have chosen a more
>> face-on shot if he had the chance or the choice?
>> 
>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>  An interesting and unpublished color set of Babe Ruth's last Yankee
>>> Stadium appearance in 1948.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
http://www.life.com/image/50453928/in-gallery/47141/babe-ruth-rare-and-unpub>>>
l
>>> ished
>>> 
>>> below is the Life photographer Ralph Morse in 1943.  Gear question: 
>>> what's
>>> he shooting?  My uninformed guess is a Contax and a mirror housing.  And
>>> what lens is that fast-looking chrome beauty?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
http://www.life.com/image/53376685/in-gallery/47141/babe-ruth-rare-and-unpub>>>
l
>>> ished
>>> 
>>> -rei
>>> 
>>> 
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