Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ah Uncle Ted, the thing si ... they don't have to give you a camera. They know you will stay with Leica and buy one, so why bother to give you a free one? :-) On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 5:28 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Lluis Ripoll OFFERED: > Subject: Re: [Leica] FS: DVD: Henri Cartier-Bresson The Impassioned > Eye(2003), een film van Heinz Butler > > > "Dear Ted, buenos dias querido amigo! > Has Leica any rough idea about your 380,000 images 99,99% with a Leica? > I hope Leica gives you an special edition Leica MM "Dr. Ted Grant" and you > come with it to Barcelona to the big meeting!<<<<<<< > > Dear Lluis, buenos dias querido amigo! > No Luis, Leica don't do that for unknown photographers to them. Although > they surely know who I am been there a few times while on assignments in > Europe! Nor regardless of how many photographs your government's National > Archives' and National Art Gallery have in their photographic collections. > Even the largest in the history of your country? Or books you've had > published and acclaimed by many many reviewers and subjects as the subject > of the books. > > Nor my years of lecturing to professional photographer associations, > schools and camera clubs all over the country. And at each, espousing the > greatness of the Leica camera never ended simply because that's the > equipment that allowed me to become the very fortunate lucky > photojournalist I am! > > Even when you are the Lead Speaker for 16 years in Cape Cod for the Leica > International Seminar! Where my lectures drew such demand each year until > people had to be turned away because there wasn't teaching room for more > than a 90 bodies. > > Oh they do give them to German's, American's, sport heros, Hip Hop so > called singers! And free cameras to movie stars because they're movie > stars! > > Give them to trust worthy hard working published international > photographers for over half a century because the camera is the best tool > on the market in carrying out thousands of assignments for many > publications or books? Nope! > > Got a used slide projector one time when Leica closed the LEICA CANADA > opertion in Toronto. But only because one of the senior people told the > staff person I had a projector on loan and it should be returned! It was > already a loaner that had the hell beat out of it shipped all over the > country as a sample. > > But the VIP was convinced they should let me keep it as I was such a loyal > and trustworthy Leica user. Besides it was really in junk condition and > they'd only scrap it if I returned it! So that was my one big free reward > after 60 years of "ALWAYS BUYING ALL MY LEICA GEAR!" > > A free MM???? Whatever you do, do not hold your breathe my friend it ain't > going to happen!! > cheers, > Dr. ted > > > > > > Cheers > Lluis > > > El 14/01/2013, a las 00:55, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> escribi?: > > AW gee whiz here we go again! :-) >> That old guy HCB stealing my DVD thunder . :-) >> >> Hell he's dead so you can't ask him live questions and receive live life >> responses!! :-) I can do that! :-) Buy mine! >> >> Here I am with an hour long BRAVO TV DVD produced by a North American TV >> network simply because they thought I took some interesting photos, >> travelled the world doing so and having a personal collection of edited >> images in the National Archives of Canada of 280,000 images. Along with >> another 100,000 in the National Gallery of Canada. 380,000, a lot of >> clicks, 99% Leicas! >> >> It's the largest collection of photography by a single photographer in >> the history of Canada! Seems cool to me, but I never thought about the >> numbers until the TV program was aired. :-) Dang that sure is a pile of >> "Happy Snapping!" But just think about all the fun and film I had and >> used! >> :-) >> >> Many of you have the DVD already with very favorable positive comments. >> Thank you >> >> Anyway if yer interested? e-me on Friday sale day. Thank you. >> >> Canadian prices obviously different to HCB's. $40.oo plus shipping. >> >> It's an hour long live person documentary. Oh yeah along with interesting >> photos and a special edition of a major selection of images as a separate >> slide show! An honour winning production ! :-) >> Stories and interviews not bad either. ;-) Got get a little plug in here. >> :-) See you Friday >> >> cheers, >> Dr. ted >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Cheyne" < >> geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk> >> To: <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:06 AM >> Subject: [Leica] FS: DVD: Henri Cartier-Bresson The Impassioned Eye >> (2003),een film van Heinz Butler >> >> >> This DVD has interviews with HCB and others, is 72 mins long, and the >> subtitles are Dutch and French. Some of the speaking is in English, >> but the majority is not. >> >> Snippet from NYT review: >> >> "Taking pictures means holding your breath with all your faculties >> concentrated on capturing a fleeting reality," declares the pioneering >> photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson near the end of Heinz Butler's >> austere documentary portrait. In this small but stately film, >> completed a year before the pioneering photojournalist Henri Cartier- >> Bresson's death at 95 in August 2004, he slowly leafs through volumes >> of his black-and-white photographs, shows some of his later drawings >> and muses on his art to the severe, prickly strains of Bach piano >> music. Even when viewed secondhand in a movie, these photographs are >> something to see. Their formal elegance is balanced by an intense, >> pulsing humanity. The documentary, which subscribes to the Great Man >> school of reverential portraiture, is not a biography but an interview >> (in French) conceived as a master class on art appreciation, with >> guest commentators augmenting Cartier-Bresson's own sparsely chosen >> words. ? Stephen Holden >> >> Including shipping, item is going for US$18 to my paypal account. >> >> All the best, >> >> Peter Cheyne >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>