War Photographers And Their Leicas

[Leika]

Chiif mentioned in the "Luck or Art" thread
that he once aspired to be a war photographer;
here are some of them.

Arkadi Shaykhet

Tim Page

Dickey Chapelle

Robert King

Larry Burrows's Leica salvaged from the plane
crash which killed him

 

[hantanbl]

I salute them

 

[Leika]

I salute them

 

[artspraken]

http://www.war-photographer.com/en/

 

[Leika]

http://www.war-photographer.com/en/

Yes, probably the most well known present day war photog;
and a Canon user.

 

[chiif]

http://www.war-photographer.com/en/

That is a very good documentary.

After watching, I realised why I am not a photographer.

I can never bring my camera to my eye when I see someone in distress.

Why James could do it, was because, in his own words, he has a duty to bring the truth to the world. And as a professional, he just concentrate to do the job he is supposed to do.

That is what I call real professionalism. Putting personal emotions aside to achieve a mission.

Just OT a little bit. Besides this movie, I urge all photographers to watch the 6 part series "Genius of Photography" by the BBC. I have it on my iPhone and I watch it over and over and over again and I never felt bored with it.

 

[chiif]

Robert King

BTW... that's the 15mm LTM CV with the finder! :bsmilie:

 

[Daikoku]

Chiif mentioned in the "Luck or Art" thread
that he once aspired to be a war photographer;
here are some of them.

Tim Page

Larry Burrows's Leica salvaged from the plane
crash which killed him

Sorry to correct you but
This man is not Tim Page..
He is Larry Burrows , the man himself
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9711/req28.htm

 

[Leika]

Sorry to correct you but
This man is not Tim Page..
He is Larry Burrows , the man himself
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9711/req28.htm

Ah, Thanks! Sorry, what was I thinking?:dunno:My bad.
Here he is:

 

[artspraken]

http://www.sitesforphotographers.com/archives/40

The M8, in contrast, is years behind other cameras—a photojournalist’s tool that cannot white balance, consistently expose a picture or deliver reasonable low-light performance–and one which has poorly designed controls.As I said earlier, I do not write this because I dislike Leica, quite the opposite. I have used their cameras for 23 years and invested tens of thousands of dollars in their products. When working in war zones, however, my first rule is to eradicate all the uncertainties from my kit. There are enough uncertainties when the shooting starts. The M8 introduces numerous uncertainties into the photography equation. For a working photojournalist in a combat situation, I would judge the Leica M8 to be unusable.

 

[scorpioh]

http://www.sitesforphotographers.com/archives/40

It's Leica's first digital attempt nevertheless which they had quickly tried to fix with m8.2 and m9. Digital being digital is always less reliable than good old film and mechanical parts.

 

[justsnapit]

Alberto Korda, no?

 

[Zoobiee]

Surprised you didn't include Robert Capa

 

[Sohrion]

Surprised you didn't include Robert Capa

Maybe because he was more of a Contax II user? :bsmilie:

 

[Leika]

Surprised you didn't include Robert Capa

This being the RF forum, I focused (no pun intended) on those with Leicas, as in the thread heading. So I left out Capa, Nachtwey, among others. As Sohrion mentioned, Capa was more of a Contax user.

 

[Leika]

Alberto Korda, no?

Yes, thanks. He used an M2 to take the picture of Che. I could only post 5 pictures. Please feel free to add on.

 

[iamryansaw]

Yea i was surprised Capa wasn't included initially. He who lands on D-Day in normandy is king of any war photographer. But yes he was more of a contax user, though he did own and use Leicas, prolly a IIIa if i remember correctly.

 

[zakariazainal]

seems like Leicas and the war are synonymous