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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wayback Photos - Odd Store Fixture 1976
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:32:02 +0100
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Alan,

I missed this! It is a really great pair of photos.

Daphne is a fascinating sculpture in it's own right. I think the close 
up of the face is fantastic. The style of the sculpture is very much of 
it's time, almost a caricature of it, but beautiful.

Thank you for showing us.

Peter

On 28/04/2025 18:21, Nathan Wajsman via LUG wrote:
> The detail from the Minicord is amazing.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
> 
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> @nwajsman.bsky.social
> 
> ????? ???????! ?????? ?????!
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>> On 14 Apr 2025, at 03:01, Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG <lug at 
>> leica-users.org> wrote:
>>
>> Here are studio photos featuring a plaster shoe store figure that had the
>> upper body of a woman on a tree trunk with branches holding platforms for
>> the shoes.
>> The overall is with a 4x5 Sinar view camera; the close-up was shot with a
>> Goerz Minicord Twin-Lens subminiature camera on 16mm Plus-X movie film.
>>
>> <
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Enigmatic/19761215_MR_Daphne_1.jpg.html
>>>
>> <
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Enigmatic/Ca_1974_MR_Minicord_Daphne.jpg.html
>>>
>>
>> I named the figure Daphne after the mythological story.
>>
>> The Minicord.
>> <
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/20170124_MR_Mine_DSF3975.jpg.html
>>>
>>
>> Can be viewed large.
>>
>> -- 
>> Alan
>>
>> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer, Emeritus
>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
>> (Retired)
>> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
>> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
>> amagayneroshak at gmail.com
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/>
>>
>> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
>> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
>>
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-- 
Dr. Peter Dzwig



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