Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/11

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Subject: [Leica] OT: famous female Leica photographers
From: Thinkofcole at aol.com (Thinkofcole@aol.com)
Date: Sat Jun 11 05:09:00 2005
 
Another important female Leica photographer was Giselle Freund,  a German 
Jew 
who eventually escaped Nazi Germany. Her father had given her a  Leica on 
her 
15th birthday.
 
    Leica women are few and far-less publicized than  the men...Two of the 
most famous women photographers -- Margaret Bourke-White  and Dorothea Lange 
-- 
used medium-format 
American cameras for the most part. 
   But Bourke-White worked closely with many of the famous male  Leica 
photographers at Life magazine and, according to Web-site commentary,  
"drove them 
crazy.'' 
   I particularly remember hearing gossip many years ago that  when she 
returned from an assignment with her photos to the lab at Life she gave  
them so 
many rolls of film at the same time that she tied up the lab for a very  
long 
time, upsetting other photographers who had to wait to see what they had.  
--bob 
cole