[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex and Margaret Bourke-White
- From: "Bill Grimwood" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:40:25 -0500
That is correct; it has squared corners, probably a Canon.
Bill Grimwood
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex and Margaret Bourke-White
Carlos,
I hate to burst your bubble, but I do believe that the other camera
appears to be a Canon
or another Japanese copy of the Leica. NOT a Leica.
You may choose to disagree.
Jerry
CarlosMFreaza wrote:
> Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was the first female war
> correspondent and the first woman to be allowed to work in combat
> zones during World War II.
> "The woman who had been torpedoed in the Mediterranean, strafed by the
> Luftwaffe, stranded on an Arctic island, bombarded in Moscow, and
> pulled out of the Chesapeake when her chopper crashed, was known to
> the Life staff as 'Maggie the Indestructible. This incident in the
> Mediterranean refers to the sinking of the England-Africa bound
> British troopship SS Strathallan which she recorded in an article
> "Women in Lifeboats", in Life, February 22, 1943.(Wikipedia)
> The first Life magazine cover when it mainly became a photo-report
> magazine in 1936 was a Bourke-White photograph about a dam.
> I found these post-war images showing Margaret Bourke-White loading
> her Rolleiflex 2.8C, the first one shows a Leica too.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2fful3r
>
> http://tinyurl.com/25zgjnu
>
>
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