[rollei_list] Re: Rollei 9x9??? Giant TLR... Is this what I found??? Dali Atomicus
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:12:06 -0800
Peter
WTF are all those extra numbers and equal signs throughout this message?
Jerry
Peter Kotsinadelis wrote:
> Peter,=20
>
> Go to http://www.petergowland.com/camera/index.html
> and you will see the 4x5 TLR.
>
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:38:00 -0700, Peter James Gordon <pjgordon@xxxxxx> wr=
> ote:
> > Hey Ruben=3D2C
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> > Thanks for the reference to Dali=3D2E=3D2E=3D2E I never knew of his assoc=
> iation=3D
> > with Halsman (or his photograph =3D27Dali Atomicus=3D27)=3D2E=3D2E=3D2E I=
> am intri=3D
> > gued by Einstein at the moment and only knew of Halsman through his portr=
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> > ait of A=3D2EE=3D2E =3D
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> > I found this quote and thought it might be of interest=3D3A
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> > Halsman set up his New York studio and using the 4 x 5 format=3D2C twin-l=
> en=3D
> > s reflex camera that he had designed in 1947 (Bello 206)=3D2C he prepared=
> t=3D
> > o capture one of his most memorable photographs=3D2E He suspended an ease=
> l=3D2C=3D
> > two paintings by Dali (one of which was =3D93Leda Atomica=3D94)=3D2C and =
> a ste=3D
> > pping stool=3D3B had his wife=3D2C Yvonne=3D2C hold a chair in the air (J=
> effrey=3D
> > 192)=3D3B on the count of three=3D2C his assistants threw three cats and =
> a b=3D
> > ucket of water into the air=3D3B and on the count of four=3D2C Dali jumpe=
> d an=3D
> > d Halsman snapped the picture=3D2E While his assistants mopped the floor =
> an=3D
> > d consoled the cats=3D2C Halsman went to the darkroom=3D2C developed the =
> film=3D
> > =3D2C and reemerged to do it again=3D2E =3D93Six hours and twenty-eight t=
> hrows =3D
> > later=3D2C the result satisfied my striving for perfection=3D2C=3D94 wrot=
> e Hals=3D
> > man in his book Halsman on the Creation of Photographic Ideas=3D2E =3D93M=
> y as=3D
> > sistants and I were wet=3D2C dirty=3D2C and near complete exhaustion=3D97=
> only t=3D
> > he cats still looked like new=3D2E=3D94
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> > Quoted from=3D3A =3D
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> > http=3D3A//www=3D2Eluhring-design=3D2Ecom/information/essays/dali-atomicu=
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> > ippe-halsman=3D2Ehtml
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> > Peter
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> > ps The photo mentioned is worth checking out if you haven=3D27t seen it!
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> > =3D5Brollei=3D5Flist=3D5D Re=3D3A Rollei 9x9=3D3F=3D3F=3D3F Giant TLR=3D2=
> E=3D2E=3D2E Is this =3D
> > what I found=3D3F=3D3F=3D3F
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> > From=3D3A =3D22Ruben=3D22 =3D3Cruben=3D40xxxxxxxxx=3D3E =3D
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> > To=3D3A =3D3Crollei=3D5Flist=3D40xxxxxxxxxxxxx=3D3E =3D
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> > Date=3D3A Thu=3D2C 3 Feb 2005 00=3D3A08=3D3A51 +0100 =3D
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> > Halsman photographed Dali with an enormous TLR - probably not a Rollei bu=
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> > t =3D
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> > it looked great !
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> Peter K
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