[rollei_list] Re: Avedon self-portrait 1963
- From: Edward Meyers <aghalidebw@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:26:06 -0500
Indeed Avedon did use twin lens Rolleis.
Ed Meyers
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:58 PM, CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2010/12/15 Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler@xxxxxxxx>:
> ....
> > I do not know if people here are familiar with Willy Ronis. About the
> > same generation of "Parisian - humanist" photographers famous for
> > their images of Parisian life in the post-WWII era. But their career
> > had started before the war and celebrity came to them in France after
> > the sixties, often because somebody in the US (MOMA people for
> > example) asked them to show their work at exhibitions in the US.
> >
> > Willy Ronis could attend the Arles photo festival when he was 99.
> > Imagine Saint Ansel at 99 attending a workshop in Carmel and you'll
> > get an idea of the devotion of attendees toward Willy Ronis. Arles is
> > a place where Saint Ansel himself came invited by Jacques Lartigue,
> > the Arles story is explained in Saint Ansel's "making of".
>
>
> Our magazine "Fotomundo" published several articles about the Arles
> photo festival,"Recontres Internationales de la Photographie de Arles"
> and several Argentinean photographers were invited for the festival
> from 1970; in 1979 Sara Facio (I gave a link a few weeks ago about a
> photograph of mine where you can see her self-portrait reproduction,
> it was taken via mirror and she appears holding a Rolleiflex) received
> a prize there for her significant contribution to photography.
> The same magazine published an interview to Willy Ronis when he was 90
> years old, the interview is in Spanish, however you can see Willy
> Ronis and other people photographs at the beginning and at the end of
> the article:
>
> http://www.fotomundo.com/nota.php?id=234
>
> Carlos
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