Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/06
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> From: "Charles E. Love, Jr." <cel14@cornell.edu>
>
> First, I'll add a bit to the serious discussion. The original question had
> to do with the emotive quality one of us found in the photographs he took of
> his children with an M as opposed to his SLR work. The point that seems to
> have attracted attention is that the M permits us to work close to our
> subjects unobtrusively. This is hardly controversial--look at the work of
> Selgado, Mary Ellen Mark, Winograd, Bill Allard, Bruce Davidson, and other
> greats identified with the M. They don't jump down people's throats, they
> develop relationships with them and then work among them (with the exception
> of Winograd, who did grab shots with 35s and 28s on the street). The
> question was not whether this is the *only* way to take people pictures, but
> what *differentiates* M's and their pictures from other cameras.
>
Didn't Sebastian Salgado use a R Leica? That's what I heard -
on the other hand, perhaps he's also using M's :-)
Oh, about age: I'm 23, trying to get cash for a Leica,
meantime I'm using my fine Canon FD system.
Magnus.Oestvall@epk.ericsson.se
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