Jaws Posted April 2, 2010 Share #1 Posted April 2, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) What is our favorite photograph ever (shot with a Leica)? Mine would have to be Salgado's 'figure of eight' miners/quarry workers: http://www.joseflebovicgallery.com/Catalogue/Archive/Cat-131-2008/Large/0083.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sm23221 Posted April 2, 2010 Share #2 Posted April 2, 2010 OK, I'll bite. It's not the camera that produces great photos, it's the photographer. Holgas produce "great" photos too. A better question to ask is: what's the greatest photo ever made? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted April 2, 2010 Share #3 Posted April 2, 2010 What is our favorite photograph ever (shot with a Leica)? Mine would have to be Salgado's 'figure of eight' miners/quarry workers: http://www.joseflebovicgallery.com/Catalogue/Archive/Cat-131-2008/Large/0083.jpg For me, some from HCB. sm23221 is right - it's the photographer that has made the many great photos (really MANY) in history; as a side consideration... I can add that some of the Adams pics are undoubtly on the top... and are pictures that COULD NOT had been taken with a Leica or any other 24x36 camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbaron Posted April 2, 2010 Share #4 Posted April 2, 2010 Korda's Che. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest umshausumzu Posted April 2, 2010 Share #5 Posted April 2, 2010 Korda's Che. And this shot was done with Elmarit 2,8/90! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted April 2, 2010 Share #6 Posted April 2, 2010 So? 90 Elmarit sounds like a Leica lens to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest umshausumzu Posted April 2, 2010 Share #7 Posted April 2, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) So? 90 Elmarit sounds like a Leica lens to me. ???????????? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted April 2, 2010 Share #8 Posted April 2, 2010 So why is this news? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest umshausumzu Posted April 2, 2010 Share #9 Posted April 2, 2010 So why is this news? Sorry, Sir. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted April 3, 2010 Share #10 Posted April 3, 2010 Have all the best photos been taken? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfredo Posted April 3, 2010 Share #11 Posted April 3, 2010 The greatest photo to be taken hasn't happened yet :-). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted April 3, 2010 Share #12 Posted April 3, 2010 I think Larry Burrows would have more than one image in the top 100 all time best Leica images, and I think he'd be at #1 with his 1966 photo of Marines waiting to be evacuated from a hilltop in Vietnam (the one with the mud and one soldier reaching out to another). Its one of his many images that when published in Life changed the way the USA looked at the war, and not many Leica photographers get to change the world they are photographing. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
frc Posted April 5, 2010 Share #13 Posted April 5, 2010 Brick Wall by E. Puts A true masterpiece! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted April 5, 2010 Share #14 Posted April 5, 2010 Brick Wall by E. Puts A true masterpiece! Is this because the thread was casually tripped up before it properly got started? Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted April 5, 2010 Share #15 Posted April 5, 2010 Is this because the thread was casually tripped up before it properly got started? Steve Well, the question is very difficult to start with. As an exercise, we should start a more simple question entitled, perhaps, "Most Beautiful Vacation Travel Ever Taken With A Volvo Car"; after sharpening our skills with "Most Tasteful Plate Ever Used For Serving Mock Turtle Soup" we could advance to "Cutest Kid Ever Portrayed With A Flash Cube" and from there come back to the topic at hand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stratherb Posted April 5, 2010 Share #16 Posted April 5, 2010 Any pics I took with my M´s... ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberto Watson Posted April 6, 2010 Share #17 Posted April 6, 2010 I love Koudelka`s work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted April 6, 2010 Share #18 Posted April 6, 2010 Well, the question is very difficult to start with. As an exercise, we should start a more simple question entitled, perhaps, "Most Beautiful Vacation Travel Ever Taken With A Volvo Car"; after sharpening our skills with "Most Tasteful Plate Ever Used For Serving Mock Turtle Soup" we could advance to "Cutest Kid Ever Portrayed With A Flash Cube" and from there come back to the topic at hand. I think you have already done the most difficult thing Philip, managed to contribute to a thread that you have no interest in nor any opinion on. I'm sure the OP hoped for opinions, not thinly disguised excuses for having a lack of knowledge about photographic history. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted April 6, 2010 Share #19 Posted April 6, 2010 a thread that you have no interest in nor any opinion on Sorry if it came across that way. However, I still maintain that - in the absence of any criteria at all - the question is unanswerable. I find it of passing interest that one of the very few who were able to come up with a picture (you), the reason stated for doing so was not any property of the image itself. Also, it was utterly immaterial if that particular image was taken with a Leica or any other kind of device. I find it somewhat strange that you appear to critizise another entry who named his choice based on purely technical merits. Given the constraint that the photograph had to be taken with a Leica, choosing a work for its technical merits does not seem inconsistent with the OP's intent at all. If you have too much time on your hands, you might want to prove that Erwin Puts' work had no influence on they way photographers perceived their tools and through those tools their own work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted April 6, 2010 Share #20 Posted April 6, 2010 I'm firmly convinced my next photograph will be the best ever taken with any camera. However, this belief seems to be self-perpetuating:( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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