NYT piece on Leica

[Artichoke]

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I do not know who is heading up the public relations section at Leica, but they have had some very good recent publicity such as the New Yorker article cited here which not only was a valentine but a fun read as well

Nan Goldin wrote a very short piece for the Style Magazine of the Sunday New York Times ...really only two paragraphs and a photograph of an M6, presumably hers

here is a link to the page

 

TMagazine - New York Times

 

but you may have to be subscriber to get it

 

I enjoyed this anecdote as to how she injured her hand

"When I was working on the Mira Nair film ‘‘Monsoon Wedding,’’ I fell almost 10 feet into an empty pool. As I was falling, I hallucinated that the Leica was my baby. I held it against my chest and landed with all my weight on my wrist and broke it into a million pieces. But I saved my Leica. Over the years, I’ve learned that the lens is a very subjective relationship. The reason I use a Leica is because it actually has a subtext. It depends on what you’re photographing, but the lens shows you not just the surface: the levels underneath are revealed. Somebody told me once how optically this was possible. I just thought it was magic."

 

This short essay was the closing piece for the magazine, which adds to its prominence

Kudos to Leica's PR team ...good to see this

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[ho_co]

Arthur--Thanks for the heads-up!

 

Can't comment on the emotional relationship she evinces, but I think it fits us all to some extent.

 

And gee, that's a "Leitz" lens. You've pricked the bubble of those who thought it had to be the most recent one to get attached to it...

 

--HC

[NZDavid]

Well, I get the first two pages, but the layout of this site is hardly clear...it's hard to know where to go to or what to click on next to see the rest of it.