let us now catalogue famous people

actually, that looks like a M2 with a M3 body shell. xp

wauw @ eggleston the gearhead

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/05/ebay-treasures-the-7element-summicron.html

It went on to become the first "normal" lens for the M3, a new model that combined a huge viewfinder with the rangefinder patch in the same window and used a proprietary bayonet mount. Modern Photography magazine called the 50mm Summicron the sharpest lens it had ever tested, and the Summicron was the lens that Henri Cartier-Bresson was to use on various cameras for the rest of his life. Although he also carried a 35mm and a 90mm, and experimented occasionally with other lenses (hey, he was a photographer!), the overwhelming majority of his pictures were taken with the collapsible 7-element Summicron.

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/04/top-ten-recommended-cameras-8.html

Mike,
I got a personal tour of Magnum in New York from Erich Hartmann, who was a past President of Magnum, and who let me look at some of Cartier-Bresson's proof books (there are *lots*). Although H. C.-B. carried both a 35mm and a 90mm as well as the 50mm, Erich told me that you can look through proof book after proof book and not see more than a shot or two taken with the 90mm (I know of only one of his iconic images that was taken with that lens), and almost none taken with the 35mm. Erich and Henri were good friends for 40 years or more.

Like any photographer, H. C.-B. experimented with lenses from time to time. But he used the collapsible 50mm Summicron from the time it was introduced until he stopped photography, and he indeed used it for almost all of his shooting--at least 95%, and very likely well over 98%.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Johnston | Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 01:54 AM

the doc the image above links to is interesting - it's from a british tv programme that weirdly cannibalises existing programmes, so i can't tell whether it's one of the other docs about him carved up and renarrated. but it's good, sort of a nature documentary about eggleston, capturing him in the wild, roaming around, prowling around an abandoned fridge behind a convenience store. i wondered sometimes, maybe around the time of the first twange of its c. 2004 era low-budget new-american horror-movie score, whether it would be better & somehow soothing to watch on mute.

i kinda can't imagine being eggleston and just cruising around neighbourhoods looking for something to shoot though. strange. i wondered, too (the excerpts of his B&W stuff featured being so persuasive - the guy on the phone, &c), whether he ever loads b&w film, still. like it feels like it would be weird not to, even if you're william eggleston.

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wow, I didn't know that M2s came with buddha ear strap lugs (really inside baseball, apologies)

I thought the same thing!

no way re: M3 body shell! M2 doesn't have the bevelled embellishment around the rangefinder/viewfinder windows.

the top plate is definitely a M2 top plate but the body shell is definitely a M3 - look at the lens release button

also schlump, a leica iii or similar (like in w. eggleston's briefcase there) is cheaper than an M!

is the metal rim something that was only on the M3?

may have been on some early versions of the M2 but that serial number, over 1 million, makes it unlikely

man the HK leica forum I used to buy gear on, that was populated by some gearheads. they would devote threads to talking about stuff like this: http://forum.hklfc.com/upload/992519-440c9a.jpg

I definitely appreciate that spirit

bonus to buying a used Leica: you'll only lose Ebay/Paypal fees if you ever go to sell it

Eggleston Trust auction raised over $5 mil for an Eggleston Museum in Memphis.

awesome - feel like it should be built in some rundown novelty shop for the full effect

you get to get drunk and shoot guns inside, do drugs and play the piano

feel like it should be built in some rundown novelty shop for the full effect

http://collections.walkerart.org/item/object/907

haha I both can't believe/think it's awesome that sherrie levine has a successful art career

ty for the leica advice china. thinking about it always, maybe i'll google it around. buy a briefcase with my budget surplus.

i spent some time flipping through democratic camera last night. it is just funny, i end up turning the page & looking at

http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/349/w500h420/CRI_232349.jpg

& just being all HOW DID THIS HAPPEN; HOW DID YOU MAKE THIS HAPPEN

like i think i forget about how invisible he is in so many of his photos; there is that thing about how his framing - cutting off subjects at the borders - maybe insinuates that the action continues outside of the frame, but even still i never really see him, there, in a hotel room. i remember hearing him say that the naked guy in the room with words scrawled on the walls was a dentist. it seems impossible.

also never knew this was an alec soth photo. to be used as a guide when recreating the william eggleston museum playpenn.

http://blogs.eciad.ca/photo/wp-content/blogs.dir/57/files/articles/soth_eggleston.jpg

hah that eggleston photo might be my favorite eggleston.

the naked guy in the red room is a friend of egglestons, yeah he is a dentist I think? the eggleston book I have has information on him.

it's just amazing that he's a dentist. i don't know any dentist. i didn't think they had interior lives, daubing the names of deities & swearing on their walls, stumbling around like harvey keitel, howling, drunk, broken. their crazy hands in my mouth.

it is a good pic. it is one of the few that have names, he names the guy in the background (the driver?, perhaps?, rather than the guy in the white, i never saw the driver until now), & the bayou. i never noticed the class & flower in this picture either:

http://hapstancedepart.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/william-eggleston-two-girls-on-couch-1976.jpg

it was always one of my favourites. like how is he in the room. but then you see him & remember he was this snappy young guy.

dentist as plural of dentist, like sheep, memorable mistake

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/03/william-klein-the-new-york-school-photographs-1936-1963-1992.html

some good quotes from klein

I've flipped through a copy of new york once - very stunning, I wonder if it's still in print

klein is the guy, if you think photographing reflections or skewing the horizon or blurring the frame is somehow outrageous... well you just can't top him

http://edge.neocha.com/chinese-creatives/the-night-in-the-day-from-si-chuan-photographer-feng-li/

http://blog.jiazazhi.com/2011/04/feng-li/

wow.

works as a govt photographer. uses mostly point and shoot.

I sold a camera to a govt photographer once. said he mostly shot boring stuff like state banquets on the job. in his personal time, shoots 4x5 and 8x10 view cameras. hires migrant workers to carry his (very heavy) view camera equipment up to scenic lookouts because hey, it's cheap!

the photos in the second link are pretty spectacular - feel like some verge on being mean-spirited but I've got a few of those in my archives too so who am I to talk.

http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2010/10/stephen-tamiesie-photography/

taken mostly in the american west iirc, and the harsh light here and its recording reminds me of robert adams - like if robert adams shot color

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/03/lost-found-project-japan.html

slideshow very much worth clicking through

puts me very much in an eternal sunshine frame of mind

RFI: Japanese/Chinese/AZN portrait/lifestyle photographers who are not Nobuyoshi Araki

also, Hi everybody, I want to start lurking here more.

Daido Moriyama?

I'm taking whatever you all have idk

Ah I've seen him. I recognize those chairs. I've been commissioned to do an album cover and I know their influences are primarily j-pop; also this question is rooted in the fact that I have no idea what it means to be an asian artist (even half of one) and I am interested in researching. I think most of my work is p mannered, so I fit in in that way, but I lack the weird sex shit that modern asian artists seem to have.

RFI: Japanese/Chinese/AZN portrait/lifestyle photographers who are not Nobuyoshi Araki

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this book:

http://img.zvab.com/member/16306a/3004632.jpg

is a really great intro to some japanese photography, including & outside of araki. i love hiromi tsuchida, who was a great societal photographer:

http://infocast.nl/storage/TsuchidaHiromi01.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1276960760555

& shomei tomatsu, who i think was mainly famous for photographing debris and relics from nagasaki - clocks stopped at the time of the detonation, etc:

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w9/fyamma/ShomeiTomatsu11heure02Nagasaki.jpg

i also just caught an amazing marc riboud retro, some of which was stuff he'd shot in japan

http://blog.madame.lefigaro.fr/stehli/7-%20femmes%20japonaises%20mains.jpg (v large img, so good though; all of my favourite stuff was of japanese working women, in offices and behind glass, i can't find a lot of it online)
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhy30kGs0c1qawyaco1_500.jpg
http://www.hackelbury.co.uk/images/artists/riboud/riboud_pic14.jpg

also some of his chinese stuff is just interesting because it's so good:

http://cameraobscura.busdraghi.net/wp-
content/uploads/2007/10/marc_riboud01.jpg (i think this is china)
http://www.theartkey.com/photos/news/9/5/thumbnails/440x460/3008w.jpg (china)

this looks maybe useful also: http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/exhibition,past,2,0,0,518,41,0,0,0,_woman_with_artificial_flowers._aoshima,_miyazaki,_.html

wow, his recent colour stuff is real pretty also (towards the bottom of this page):

http://www.marcriboud.com/marcriboud/accueil.html

http://www.marcriboud.com/marcriboud/portfolio2/images/87.jpg

http://japan-photo.info/blog/2007/07/10/john-szarkowski-1925-2007-and-japanese-photography/
also
wrt ilp patron szarkowski

struggling to remember the name of the 'japanese eggleston'

ah: http://japan-photo.info/blog/2006/09/20/rinko-kawauchi-at-galerie-priska-pasquer-cologne/

also: http://japan-photo.info/blog/2007/10/18/mikiko-hara/

the floating girl is really popular with tumblr type ppl: http://yowayowacamera.com/

yasuhiro ishimoto recently passed away, is well regarded by the_west

there's hiroshi sugimoto but u2 has plowed that furrow already

you can go here to see what some chinese photographers are doing w/ portrait: http://edge.neocha.com/category/photography/

http://invisiblephotographer.asia/ collects street photography from asia, it's pretty uneven but maybe you'll find something you like there

I really like those photos by Mikiko Hara, posted above.

more here: http://www.amadorgallery.com/Mikiko_Hara.html

thx everybody for this

sad to see the end post on talking barnacles

i love this last series http://www.talkingbarnacles.com/2012/03/celebration-1-of-36-by-growing-up-on_25.html