Category Archives: Leica Photographers

Leica SIS opening in Palm Beach with Ann Curry

Those videos are from last night – sorry about my shaking hands:

I did not mean to cut the speech of the President of Leica US Roger Horn – YouTube allows only 10 minutes videos. I will upload the full speech later on.

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Leica photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Today, 101 years ago, Henri Cartier-Bresson was born. He was consider to be the father of modern photojournalism and of course a Leica user (he used a normal 50mm lens).
Magnum Henri Cartier-Bresson slideshow available here.
Henri Cartier-Bresson videos:

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Garry Winogrand videos

Sorry, the video is in German – I could not find the original English version (you can still hear the English version):

A reader just found another video – in English:

Garry Winogrand @ Wikipedia

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Anthony Suau – Visual Nomad (video)

Anthony Suau – Visual Nomad. from leica camera on Vimeo.

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Sebastiao Salgado: A Conversation

Who is Sebastiao Salgado? I will just say that his Leica M7 camera set is currently selling on ebay for US $130,680.00:

“Salgado uses three Leica cameras. Most of the time he uses 28mm, 35mm and 60mm lenses (one for each camera body). He uses black-and-white Tri-X film. In low-light situations and indoors he uses T-Max 3200 [...]

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Helen Levitt (1913-2009)

Helen Levitt grew up in Brooklyn. Dropping out of high school, she taught herself photography while working for a commercial photographer. While teaching some classes in art to children in 1937, Levitt became intrigued with the transitory chalk drawings that were part of the New York children’s street culture of the time. She purchased a [...]

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