Leica: The Camera that Snapped a Century (BBC Article)

[filmtwit]

From the BBC

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20141104-the-camera-that-snapped-a-century


Each slide has it's own content.

 

[David Hughes]

Bad news...

Bad news...

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee."

Never mind...

 

[Rodchenko]

Supported by our bloody taxes...

 

[wallace]

Good read...

 

[john neal]

David, and others in the UK - we can spoof the website thus:-

http://www.bbc.com.nyud.net/culture/story/20141104-the-camera-that-snapped-a-century

Works for me 😉

Nice read too, and a v early street shot by the young Mr Leitz - thanks filmtwit!

 

[Highway 61]

A string length of replayed clichés and always the same BS nonsense regarding "The falling soldier" by Robert Capa (in the text below Alfred Eisenstaedt's "Times Square" photo).

I wonder how we should have those stupid journalists understand that Robert Capa used a Contax II from 1936 onwards.

 

[traveler_101]

A string length of replayed clichés and always the same BS nonsense regarding "The falling soldier" by Robert Capa (in the text below Alfred Eisenstaedt's "Times Square" photo).

I wonder how we should have those stupid journalists understand that Robert Capa used a Contax II from 1936 onwards.

Ah, the woes of being #2. The Capa photograph foreshadowed Zeiss's dismemberment at the hands of the Russians after the war. Never again would Zeiss mount a sustained challenge to Leica.