Seventeen magazine cover

[JoeFriday]

I don't actually read those teenage tabloids, but I was in the supermarket today and glanced at them while I was in the checkout line.. has anyone seen the latest issue of Seventeen?

low and behold, there's a Barnack Leica front and center used as a prop for some 'hottie' dude to hold

 

[tomtodeath]

Lol!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dadsm3]

Admit it's a self portrait, Brett.....

 

[ghost]

phooey, this does nothing to support my "babe magnet theory".

 

[RML]

<i>Seventeen</i> magazine is a porn magazine here in Holland. Don't know what you kids read over the pond. I'd hesitate letting my daughter read such filth. 🙂

 

[Pherdinand]

yeah, a camera porn magazine, apparently. Remy.

 

[VinceC]

In the United States it's a magazine for girls who aspire to be as cool at 17-year-olds, so I assume it's geared toward the 12-16 set and so is fairly tame.

Photographers who take pictures for those kinds of magazines are people too (and employed!) so probably he/she was having fun with one of the old cameras in his/her collection.

More seriously, this week's US edition of the Economist has an article on the Leica M8 -- a business story -- that includes a photo of Henri Cartier Bresson squinting through an M.

 

[Skinny McGee]

Joe Friday said "Hottie Dude"!

 

[JoeFriday]

what cracks me up about that photo is the way the guy is holding it, as if he's saying "you want me to put this thing up to my face?"

but sadly, I think the focus (no pun intended) was on him, rather than the camera

 

[ywenz]

kids know that retro is cool

 

[dll927]

At least for what I can see, there is nothing to indicate that he IS holding it!! Probably a mug shot of some heartthrob that 17-year-olds would collapse in ecstacy over, with the camera superimposed. But from the looks of things, at least they do have good taste in cameras.

 

[Jonathan_100]

Great. Since it's on the cover, I'll have to get one for my daughter.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Great. Since it's on the cover, I'll have to get one for my daughter.

Will she appreciate an old camera?

 

[JoeFriday]

get her a Zorki.. she won't know the difference

 

[FrankS]

That's kind of like a cubic zirconia? (just a joke!)

 

[jano]

More seriously, this week's US edition of the Economist has an article on the Leica M8 -- a business story -- that includes a photo of Henri Cartier Bresson squinting through an M.

I saw that, too, wanted to point it out, but got dumped at the end of my todo list 🙂

 

[VinceC]

>>I saw that, too<<

Some of us read the Economist, others read Seventeen. I appreciate the diversity of interests here on RFF.

 

[goo0h]

what cracks me up about that photo is the way the guy is holding it, as if he's saying "you want me to put this thing up to my face?"

He hasn't yet perfected that shoot-from-the-hip approach....

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

what cracks me up about that photo is the way the guy is holding it

But you know that you don't need to bring it up to your eye, if you're shooting from the hip. I wonder if that's what the photographer had in mind, if you know what I mean...

I wonder if he said "you put what into this? Aren't you supposed to clean film off?!?"

 

[rogue_designer]

I'm curious to know if it came from the personal collection of the photographer who did the shoot. 😀