[rollei_list] Re: Alfred Gregory, '53 Everest photographer death

  • From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:36:57 -0300

Marc, the photograph is about Alfred Gregory with a Contax II and tele
lens, "Plate 3" between pages 44 and 45. Tom Stobart appears in the
"Plate 5" with the caption "Tom Stobart (Camera-man). Page 30: "Tom
Stobart came with us to take a film of the expedition", page 37 "
Travel arrangements and the ordering of photographic equipment were
Alfred Gregory's task" to quote some of the initial mentions on them.
In the Appendix IX is also mentioned "Agfa Ltd. Photographic
material", but there is a special mention to Kodak in the book: "All
the colour photographs in this volume and many of those reproduced in
black and white were taken on Kodak colour film"

Carlos
2010/3/14 Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> At 09:57 PM 3/14/2010, you wrote:
>>Marc,  you don't read Alfred Gregory obituary in "The Times" I
>>mentioned this morning, he was the 1953 expedition official
>>photographer. Tom Stobart was the cameraman for movie cameras. There
>>is an obscure reference in the book final appendix: IX
>>"Acknowledgments of Assistance in Lauching the Expedition" where among
>>decens of companies and persons, you can read: "Time- Life Magazine,
>>USA , Contax cameras, Biogon lenses", however there are no references
>>about cameras brand in the main text, you can see in the Royal
>>Geographic Society site photographs about Alfred Gregory using a
>>Contax II with tele lens (not Biogon), using a Retina camera and using
>>the Rolleiflex as you can see in my blog. Alfred Gregory writes in his
>>book "Gregory's Everest" he used a Rolleiflex, a Contax and a Retina
>>during the 1953 expedition.
>
> Time-Life made much of their contribution to the expedition open and
> notorious in US advertising, and Zeiss Ikon also used the contribution in
> their own advertising.  There is a picture of Stobard with a Contax II in
> the book, I believe.
>
> Marc
>
>
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