René Burri at the Design Museum Zurich - photos

[nksyoon]

Last Sunday legendary Magnum photographer Rene Burri made an appearance at the Design Museum Zurich where his retrospective exhibition was being shown. It was the last day of the exhibition and he was holding a signing session.

We spotted him walking towards the museum and stopped him for some photos outside. There was about 5-6 of us crowding around him, taking photos of him. He then asked us to stand in a group with our cameras facing him while he took a shot of us. He was using a Leica digital P&S! He mentioned that the late Werner Bischof (another Swiss member of Magnum) had taken a similar photo of press photographers jostling for a photo.

He was totally obliging and a really pleasant character. There must have been about 200-300 people getting signatures through the afternoon.

I used my Mamiya 6 with the 75mm f/3.5 lens with Neopan 400 and Delta 3200.

Attached are some photos, and more in:

Flickr Slideshow

Flickr Set

 

[RayPA]

That's great! And Mr. Burri has excellent taste in digital p&s, too. 🙂






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[martin-f5]

lucky you!

and of course, great shoots
you must be a professional photographer.
Are these photos scans from prints?

regards Martin

 

[nksyoon]

Hi Martin,

Thanks, but no, I'm not a professional, just a sometimes enthusiastic amateur. The images are scans from the negatives with an Epson 4990 flatbed scanner.

Cheers,
Nick

 

[PaulN]

Rene Burri seems to be a popular guy on this forum 😉 This is the second sighting so far. This thread:
link
was started by another forum member (Avotius) who saw him in China. He was sporting a film Leica and an HP digicam. Same hat though 😉

I'd love to bump into a magnum photographer in Boston 😉 Unfortunately, if any are in town, I usually find out after they have left.

-Paul

Hrmmm the preview button isn't showing the link as a URL. If it doesn't work, here is the link: http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14409&highlight=burri

 

[nksyoon]

He was sporting a film Leica and an HP digicam. Same hat though 😉

From the photo in that thread you linked, it looks like the same camera he had here, a Leica D-Lux

 

[jan normandale]

NY.. I'm so totally envious... if you'd have called I would have come right away and we could both have used our Mamiya 6's now yours is much better than mine!