[rollei_list] Re: Karl Heitz, RIP (Query: Mechancial Cameras)
- From: Bob Shell <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:53:12 -0400
On Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at 05:53 PM, Allen Zak wrote:
> For a time, his print ads for Gitzo featured a pair of women's legs in
> the foreground framing a tripod, borderline suggestive (maybe not so
> borderline). My wife was quite offended, as was MS. Magazine, and
> strongly recommended a boycott. By that time I was already a Gitzo
> owner and didn't have to take sides, but I did raise the matter with
> Mr. Heitz. His response was, in essence, favorable to whatever moved
> merchandise.
>
Gitzo, properly pronounced Jheet-so, is French, after all. That ad
didn't originate with Karl, but with Gitzo in Paris. They probably
thought offending MS magazine was hilarious. The ad was a knockoff
parody of a poster for the movie Barbarella. I was a Gitzo dealer in
those days and they sent me a big poster of the ad and I put it up in
my shop. No one complained.
Bob
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