Picasso used a Fed 2

Quality control is such a bourgeois concept. Explains the weird bokeh and bizarro distortion in his paintings.
 
Never occurred to me. I think you may be on to something. I always thought there was something bogus going on. Crikey, you're right, the guy was a total pseud, what a swizz.
 
Actually, Picasso never used the Fed-2. This famous photo was commissioned by the Fed marketing dept. to promote Fed cameras. A series of famous people were to be photographed with their Feds. For some reason this idea was dropped soon after the Picasso shot. That's my belief anyway.
 
Felix Edmundovich Dzerjinsky and Pablo Picassco, modern masters of their arts

Felix Edmundovich Dzerjinsky and Pablo Picassco, modern masters of their arts

fanshaw said:
Actually, Picasso never used the Fed-2. This famous photo was commissioned by the Fed marketing dept. to promote Fed cameras. A series of famous people were to be photographed with their Feds. For some reason this idea was dropped soon after the Picasso shot. That's my belief anyway.
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How surprising. Since FED (Felix Edmundovich Dzerjinsky) founded the Cheka (KGB), one would have thought FED marketing operatives to be unusually, ah, persuasive in eliciting voiuntary testimonials to the superiority of Soviet manufactures. :rolleyes:
 
Pherdinand said:
fanshaw, is your rff name inspired by paul auster's crazy-genius character in the closed room?:)
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Actually, I suspect that actually is Auster's character, come to life, who will soon begin stalking Auster himself in a Paul Auster novel featuring a fictional writer named "Paul Auster" who once wrote a book featuring a character named "Fanshaw," who has now come to life and is stalking him.
 
PMCC said:
How surprising. Since FED (Felix Edmundovich Dzerjinsky) founded the Cheka (KGB), one would have thought FED marketing operatives to be unusually, ah, persuasive in eliciting voiuntary testimonials to the superiority of Soviet manufactures. :rolleyes:
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Indeed, I am sure that they were, within the Soviet Union
 
PMCC said:
How surprising. Since FED (Felix Edmundovich Dzerjinsky) founded the Cheka (KGB), one would have thought FED marketing operatives to be unusually, ah, persuasive in eliciting voiuntary testimonials to the superiority of Soviet manufactures. :rolleyes:
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No need for persuasive tactics, Comrade. Soviet products were sometimes indeed superior. Nobody persuade me to buy them, even through advertisement. I drive a Niva 4X4, shoot FED and Zorki, and tell time by Vostok and Poljot, all made in the USSR. I use Soviet military binoculars. They have never let me down and I payed peanuts for them, compared to western consumerist overpriced and often useless "goods", which we feel compelled to buy because of constant bombardment of psychologically manipulative, "persuasive" advertisement.
 
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