Pics of famous LF photogs with their gear

[PaulSchneider]

Thought this might be a fun thread! If anyone has photos of famous photographers with their LF gear or simply at work ... post them here!

I will start with:


Jeff Wall (ca. 2010):

4x5 Linhof Master Technika (probably 3000?)

[PaulSchneider]

Rineke Dijkstra (2010?)

Usually with a Linhof Master Technika and Sironar S 150. This time around she borrowed some kit, some other brand 4x5 LF camera and an Elinchrom Ranger kit.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jW9m_4cwOAo/TRTirLRgasI/AAAAAAABW0o/G_EOlLoLOIU/s1600/HelensvilleRinekeWorksRT1_10.jpg

[Ken Lee]

http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/StrandShooting.jpg
Paul Strand in the Outer Hebrides, 1954

At this point in his life, he used an 8x10 Deardorff (shown above) and a 5x7 Graflex (masked to 5x6).

He used one lens, a 300mm Dagor.

[tgtaylor]

John Wimberley photographing in the Great Basin with his 5x7 camera. I'm sure he told me the brand but I have forgotten.

[David Lindquist]

John Wimberley photographing in the Great Basin with his 5x7 camera. I'm sure he told me the brand but I have forgotten.

Looks like a Sinar, the Norma model.
David

[vinny]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5103/5646654124_100a2e88a2.jpg
Per Volquartz 2006 in the Alabama Hills. Nikkor 450mm on my 8x10.

[philipmorg]

http://philipmorgan.net/miscphotos/MABWithSinar.JPG

Manuel Alvarez Bravo with Sinar P and Linhof Twin-Shank tripod.

[philipmorg]

John Wimberley photographing in the Great Basin with his 5x7 camera. I'm sure he told me the brand but I have forgotten.

It's a Sinar Norma, modified with custom compendium shade and in-camera flocking to reduce camera flare.

[Nathan Appel]

Rineke Dijkstra (2010?)

Usually with a Linhof Master Technika and Sironar S 150. This time around she borrowed some kit, some other brand 4x5 LF camera and an Elinchrom Ranger kit.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jW9m_4cwOAo/TRTirLRgasI/AAAAAAABW0o/G_EOlLoLOIU/s1600/HelensvilleRinekeWorksRT1_10.jpg
Thanks Paul, I love Rineke and have one of her books. I actually did not know Rineke was a "she" and used lf until now!

[Ari]

Richard Avedon, working on the "In The American West".

[Frank Petronio]

http://www.4photolab.com/Media/prausandsinar.jpg

Edgar Praus isn't quite famous yet but maybe on this forum he is?

So... what's with all the twin shank tripods? Do they make you famous? Carbon Fiber ones must mire you with the proletariat....

[Pawlowski6132]

Hmmm. Where are all the famous people?

[Gudmundur Ingolfsson]

I can guarantee for Edgar Praus's fame. He has been known to me since 1973.

[Solliste13]

very interesting :)

[Colin Graham]

Aaron Siskind-

http://jankesnergallery.com/jkgartists/yavno-max/zoom/yavno-zz-aaronsiskindoldyumajail.jpg
-photo by Max Yavno
Aaron Siskind, Old Yuma Jail
1947

[Ivan J. Eberle]

Another of Aaron Siskind, with a Meridian 45B:
http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m585/Desertpupfish/Meridian%2045B/AaronSiskindwithMeridian45B.jpg

Just one more:
http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m585/Desertpupfish/Meridian%2045B/AaronSiskindwMeridian.jpg

[Michael Kadillak]

Looks like a Sinar, the Norma model.
David

Or it is a Linhof Bi Karden.

[Merg Ross]

My friend Imogen Cunningham photographed by Henry Swift in 1934.

[Frank Petronio]

Or it is a Linhof Bi Karden.

I agree now, the Norma doesn't have those center pivot points on the front standard. The Sinar head threw me off though.

[Drew Bedo]

So . . is there any cross-over between this thread (the FAMOUS thread) and the other thread about US? Are famous photographers too modest or just no longer with us (or maybe they are out there actually SHOOTING!)

[Emil Schildt]

so many famous potographers I havn't heard about...:o

Here's one I know!

Josef Sudek

... and Sally Mann of course..

My two favourite photographers - LF or not..

[Peter Gomena]

John Wimberley's camera is a Sinar Norma. He bought it new in the 1970s. It has the most wonderful patina from years of use.

Peter Gomena

[Michael Kadillak]

John Wimberley's camera is a Sinar Norma. He bought it new in the 1970s. It has the most wonderful patina from years of use.

Peter Gomena

Peter is correct. John's reference materials point to him owning a Sinar Norman. Whatever he is using I am sure of one thing - he is very proficient with it.

[Emil Schildt]

... him owning a Sinar Norman..

wow - is that the male version? :D

[Jerry Bodine]

I agree now, the Norma doesn't have those center pivot points on the front standard. The Sinar head threw me off though.

Those are not center pivot points. The black knobs on both standards are the rise/fall locks; just below them are the bubble levels. The camera is most definitely a 5x7 Sinar Norma (just like mine).

[tgtaylor]

Ron Partridge, imaged Thursday, 6 March 2008 in Hayward, CA.

[Steven Tribe]

This is Aage Rasmussen of Denmark who changed his Surname to Remfeldt in 1918 (yes, it is assumed he was thinking of Rembrandt!).

He was, as we ironically say in Denmark, "world famous in Denmark!".
Active from around 1910 to the early 1980's.
I have never seen a photo he has made outside a studio. Often quoted as saying "Photography doesn't interest me much" and considered himself " not a great photographer - but I am one of the best portraiters".
Much taken with J.M.Cameron and visted Schenkel in Berlin as well as Luboshez, Marcus Adams, Betram Park, Hugh Cecil, Steichen and Stieglitz. Stieglitz was not impressed "there is more in your own face than in your pictures".

He never gave up pictorialism. He filled rather too much on the danish photography scene! Photo is taken by a truely great Danish photographer Viggo Rivad who has never ventured into large format scene - probably because of people like Remfeldt.

Remfeldt lived a few miles away from me and my local doctor (long time chairman of the regional art club) actually inherited his plate and prints and equipment which, for the most part, were donated to the Photo museum in Herning (Jutland) which Gandolfi has probably seen.

[Bob Chambers]

Cole Weston, son of Edward, photographed at his workshop in Scottsdale AZ circa 1978. Photographing nudes indoors because of rainy weather.

[patrickjames]

I don't know why this is not showing as an image, but here is Edward Weston for you.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/02/edward_weston_1937_0329_lat.jpg

[Emil Schildt]

here you go..

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/02/edward_weston_1937_0329_lat.jpg

[Michael Kadillak]

here you go..

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/02/edward_weston_1937_0329_lat.jpg

What a fabulous photograph. Lens cleaning tissues (?) and a smoke on deck.

[Bill_1856]

I don't know why this is not showing as an image, but here is Edward Weston for you.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/02/edward_weston_1937_0329_lat.jpg

Wonder what camera this was?

[Chauncey Walden]

Bill, a Century Universal.

[Mark Sampson]

And the lens is most likely a Turner-Reich triple convertible. That's what Weston used in his 'California and the West' era (and complained about in the book).

[Philippe Grunchec]

Why did he complain?

[David Lindquist]

And the lens is most likely a Turner-Reich triple convertible. That's what Weston used in his 'California and the West' era (and complained about in the book).

I think his complaint was actually about a 19 inch Protar (single component) that Weston got for the Guggenheim project on the recommendation of Ansel Adams. Some of their correspondence about this is in the Adams book _Letters and Images_. And in the book _Camera and Lens_ (revised edition, 1970, 1976) Adams wrote "One of the greatest photographers obtained a single -component Protar of 19-inch focal length but did not know that one had to refocus as a single lens was stopped down, and many beautiful images were unsharp and useless."
David

[Philippe Grunchec]

Thanks! But is that always the case? I have a Wollensak triple convertible, but always used it 'complete'.

[lenser]

Don't know about the lens, but that looks suspiciously like an Optimo shutter.

[David Lindquist]

Thanks! But is that always the case? I have a Wollensak triple convertible, but always used it 'complete'.

I don't know. In _Camera and Lens_ cited above Adams states "Most single lenses (such as the separate components of a convertible lens) must be refocused as the lens is stopped down..." "Most" sort of suggests not all to me. And it suggests one would want to be sure to make that determination with ones particular convertible lens.

And does anyone know, when focus shift with a single component of a convertible lens occurs, does it always occur in the same direction for all convertible lens designs? That is when the diaphragm is stopped down does the lens always have to be extended slightly, or does it always have to be adjusted a bit closer to the film plane?
David

[Mark Sampson]

Perhaps I reached too far with my previous comment. But from the 1978 Aperture edition of 'California and the West', in a section labeled 'The Technical Aspects';

"Camera: 8x10
Lenses: a triple convertible 12" with elements of 21"-28"
a single element 19"
...I had focussing difficulties which I blamed on my eyes; I got new glasses and the trouble persisted; not until the Guggenheim was over did I discover that the trouble lay in the lens- the product of a reputable firm, that had, on this of all occasions, sent out a dud."
So we don't know for sure which lens Weston didn't like. But even a close study of the pictures in the book don't suggest a 'dud' lens was used to make any of them.

[Merg Ross]

The lens that troubled Weston, which he picked up during the first Guggenheim trip at the suggestion of Ansel, was a single element 19" Zeiss Protar.

[monkeymon]

Not all of them seem to be using lf, but almost!

http://www.alavallamaalla.com/temp/fotaajat.jpg

[patrickjames]

Brett Weston

http://www.brettwestonarchive.com/data/pages/templates_img/68_photo-2.jpg

[William Whitaker]

Not all of them seem to be using lf, but almost!

I simply must add a bullhorn to my kit!

[Frank Petronio]

Not all of them seem to be using lf, but almost!

http://www.alavallamaalla.com/temp/fotaajat.jpg

What ever became of the bottom row? I only know of Stoller as a great architectural photographer.

[TheDeardorffGuy]

What ever became of the bottom row? I only know of Stoller as a great architectural photographer.
I'm so glad we do not wear suits or ties anymore.

[Mark Sampson]

Monkeymon, you have to tell us where that ad came from. Were they all endorsing Hickey-Freeman? I'm thinking 'suddenly it's 1960' and wondering why Stoller (the architecture shooter) is the only one whose tripod isn't level. Beattie is directing a very large group portrait... the other ones who we don't recognize must have been top NYC advertising photographers, who made a fortune and lost their fame.

[Merg Ross]

Monkeymon, you have to tell us where that ad came from. Were they all endorsing Hickey-Freeman? I'm thinking 'suddenly it's 1960' and wondering why Stoller (the architecture shooter) is the only one whose tripod isn't level. Beattie is directing a very large group portrait... the other ones who we don't recognize must have been top NYC advertising photographers, who made a fortune and lost their fame.

This looks like the faculty of The Famous Artists School in Connecticut. I recall the architectural work of d'Arazien from the 60's as being very innovative.

[monkeymon]

Monkeymon, you have to tell us where that ad came from. Were they all endorsing Hickey-Freeman? I'm thinking 'suddenly it's 1960' and wondering why Stoller (the architecture shooter) is the only one whose tripod isn't level. Beattie is directing a very large group portrait... the other ones who we don't recognize must have been top NYC advertising photographers, who made a fortune and lost their fame.


I'm really sorry but i don't really know! Sometime ago, in a web page far far from here i came across this image, actually used it as a background for a while... i had to upload it to my server just to show it to you, didn't find the original url anymore.

Fotogs were so cool back in the days :)

[johnielvis]

I'm really sorry but i don't really know! Sometime ago, in a web page far far from here i came across this image, actually used it as a background for a while... i had to upload it to my server just to show it to you, didn't find the original url anymore.

Fotogs were so cool back in the days :)

I've seen this before!!!! i think I have it in an old "complete photographer" magazine--either that or something very similar.....I have held that in my hands at some point...and not that long ago....within the year

[Struan Gray]

http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2011/05/shooting-myself.html

[John Powers]

http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2011/05/shooting-myself.html

Wonderful collection.

Thank you for posting them.

John

[tgtaylor]

Ditto!

Thomas

[Struan Gray]

John, Thomas, you're welcome.

Lots of old favourites, but also some that were new to me, like the Doisneau and Madame d'Ora.

[Duane Polcou]

Ansel Adams, and Lynn Radeka. Lynn isn't as well known as Ansel, of course, but his B/W prints are some of the most luminous and well crafted I've ever seen.

[Michael Graves]

Elmer Fudd

[Roger Thoms]

Elmer Fudd
:D :D :D

[Brian Ellis]

Elmer Fudd

+1!

[David Lindquist]

I saw this photograph of Brett Weston (done by Richard C. Miller) at the Monroe Gallery in Santa Fe a few days ago:
http://www.photographywest.com/pages/reception.html
(Scroll down the page a bit). I could clearly see in the print that the lens on his 11 X 14 camera was a Dagor, f/7.7, Focus 19 inches, mounted in a Compound shutter.
David

[cdholden]

http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2011/05/shooting-myself.html

I just noticed a mistake in one of the dates: Erwin Blumenfield, 1932.
The CAMEROSITY cypher that Kodak used to date lenses says that this photo can't be older than 1942, when the lens was produced.

That's quite a collection of photographers!

[Craig Roberts]

Here is Cole Weston in 1995. This was published in his book, Cole Weston 50 Years.

[windpointphoto]

Craig, this is one of your photographs, isn't it?

[Frank Petronio]

Here is Cole Weston in 1995. This was published in his book, Cole Weston 50 Years.

That was when men were men, or at least closeted, and we used real cameras, not these foo-foo delicate contraptions made from rare, endangered trees and left-over radioactive Soviet Titanium.

[Craig Roberts]

Yup, I shot this with a Wista 8x10 and a 14-inch commercial Ektar on Tri-X film, developed in HC-110 and printed on Ilford fiber paper. A fun time. I no longer have the Wista but i have other 8x10's to take its place AND still have the 14-inch Ektar. Craig

[matthew klos]

Crewdson

[Frank Petronio]

He looks like a caricature of a NY artist....

[matthew klos]

Very true, but his work is amazing

[Daniel Stone]

Crewdson:

sadly he's now a digital user(P65+ from what I've heard) on a tech camera

However, I remember seeing some of his ~40x50" inkjets for sale in the $100k range circa 2006/7, and they were selling for those prices :o!

I remember reading that his film of choice in a lot of situations was Fuji's NPL, which converted flourescent to tungsten balance IIRC, IN THE FILM(no filtering lights). Makes working in studio environments much cooler :).

He's also been quoted to "never touch the camera", he had a camera operator to do everything. He was more like a movie director, or a maestro of an orchestra. Obviously, his eye was very keen to subtle nuances. I like his work, especially the "Beneath the Roses" series. Also the shot from his "Twilight" series with the woman floating in the water in the flooded house

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Pn7-JYjZRUM/TSgkBsERisI/AAAAAAAAAI4/eWLbtc-kssg/s1600/gregory+crewdson.jpg

one of my all time favorites

thanks for bringing him up!

-Dan

[sun of sand]

If this doesn't take
"what gear did ______ use so that I may be as good" to another level

[Struan Gray]

I just noticed a mistake in one of the dates: Erwin Blumenfield, 1932.
The CAMEROSITY cypher that Kodak used to date lenses says that this photo can't be older than 1942, when the lens was produced.

Good catch.

I can't help noticing when people fly the Union Flag upside down. I suppose I could just not tell anybody, but where's the fun in that?

[BennehBoy]

Alec Soth

http://briancarnold.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/alec-soth01.jpg

[CP Goerz]

Famous photographer Andrew Glover ;-)

[John Jarosz]

That picture of the woman floating inside the house creeps me out.

[Ig Nacio]

Hi,

Richard Avedon:
http://www.richardavedon.com/#mi=1&pt=0&pi=9&p=-1&a=-1&at=-1

Best regards,

Iggi

[Vaughn]

Big Camera Day on the Plaza (Sante Fe, MN) in 2003.

A lot of big cameras -- might be some famous people in there somewhere.

Scanned contact print from 8x10 neg (300mm lens).

[ilsiu]

This probably isn't what this thread had in mind, but what the heck ;)

Although not known for his photography, this guy is famous and photography is a pretty serious hobby of his, so I'll go ahead and call him a photographer. The link contains lots of pics showing him using 35mm, 6x6, 6x7, 4x5, and 8x10:

http://www.chow-yun-fat.de/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=339

[Daniel Stone]

wasn't there a thread here about bad ebay photos? This one reminds me of one posted in that thread

-Dan

[cowanw]

I just noticed a mistake in one of the dates: Erwin Blumenfield, 1932.
The CAMEROSITY cypher that Kodak used to date lenses says that this photo can't be older than 1942, when the lens was produced.

That's quite a collection of photographers!

hmmmm maybe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
George Eastman of the Eastman Kodak Company was a fervent supporter of the IFC, and instituted its use at Kodak in 1928, where it remained in use until 1989

Eastman heavily promoted the Cotsworth calendar, which consisted of uniform weeks and months, with the result that it had 13 months. This would eliminate unequal months and aid business calculations, Eastman believed. The calendar originated in the 1800s but was so strongly presented by Eastman that it became known in the US as the Eastman Plan, and in fact the International Fixed Calendar League, with offices in London, England, and Rochester, New York (the home of Kodak), was led by Eastman and Moses B. Cotsworth. They closed their doors within 5 years of Eastman's suicide.

Some, but not all Kodak cameras have a manufacturing date stamped or printed on them using a simple code; and some, but not all of these dates, use Cotsworth's 13 month format. Without an enormous inventory of cameras along with factory documentation, it's impossible to say which is the case with each camera. Eastman handed over daily control of Kodak by 1926 and actively took up the cause of calendar reform after that date. He then committed suicide in 1932. To what extent factories followed his preferred calendar system, or how consistently they did so, decades after his death, is not clear.

The camerosity date code worked by replacing numbers with letters as follows:

C A M E R O S I T Y
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

http://home.cogeco.ca/~disastrophe/specs/camerosity.html
The protocol is MM/DD/YY or MM/YY
http://slideprojector.kodak.com/plugins/acrobat/camerosityDecoding.pdf
Which makes this the 41st month of 1988 and 6K is left over.
I don't think this is a camerosity code, which was developed in the 1940's
On the other hand if the first two letters are the year, you are quite correct.
Here's another interesting post
http://www.bnphoto.org/bnphoto/LFN/KodakID_db.htm

[ic-racer]

John Szarkowski

http://www.artinfo.com/media/image/36259/JohnSzarkowskiTusconByLeeFriedlander.jpg
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/410w.jpg

[ic-racer]

O.W. Link
http://www.carolinaarts.com/owlink1-999.jpeg

[ic-racer]

Meyerowitz
http://erwanlecloirec.typepad.fr/erwanlecloirec/Meyerowitz.jpg

[ic-racer]

Joel-Sternfeld
http://www.charlesrichardson.com/pictures/Joel-Sternfeld.jpg

[ic-racer]

Shore
http://www.kpraslowicz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/shore-bfc.jpg

[ic-racer]

Pfahl
http://purple.niagara.edu/cam/special/ArcadiaRevisited/BioPicts/pfahl2.gif

[ic-racer]

Chuck Close
http://www.urbanicity.info/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/chuck-close-myrna-suarez-gus-van-sant.jpg.w300h200.jpg

[ic-racer]

Jeff Wall
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jeffwall/image/roomguide/rm1_picture_for_woman.jpg

[ic-racer]

Sexton
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/images/board/pages/sexton_1.jpg

[ic-racer]

Fred Picker
http://blogs.salon.com/0004217/images/2006/11/13/EdsBlog.FredPicker.1.jpg

[ic-racer]

Minor White
http://www.janicedugas.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/minor-white-with-students.jpg

[ic-racer]

Cornel Lucas
http://www.fishup.ru/files/2b/37/3a/lg_5889551_CornwithCamera.jpg

[ic-racer]

Linda Connor
http://www.stulevyphoto.com/thumbs/lrg-2249-linda_connor.jpg

[ic-racer]

Nicholas Nixon
http://images.artnet.com/logo_images/425931311/nixon-self,%20sf%201997%20sm.jpg

[ic-racer]

Paula Chamlee
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__J3sDQKF5sI/TASPKpZvcaI/AAAAAAAAAVo/eeZDnAZUo5A/S220/PaulaChamleeportrait.jpg

[ic-racer]

Misrachhttp://www.artinfo.com/media/image/75090/Misrach_SelfPortrait.jpg

[ic-racer]

Kenro Izu
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oOwtGAQR28/TSQD7I_e9kI/AAAAAAAAWXU/y7o11oBqj1k/s1600/5-kenro-izu-with-his-camera.jpg

[ic-racer]

Mark Klett
http://www.nps.gov/pefo/parknews/images/Mark_Klett.jpg

[ic-racer]

William Christenberry
http://www.fastfocus.tv/images/BillChristenberry.jpg

[Joe Forks]

Is that a trailer hitch on Cornel's camera?

[Renato Tonelli]

ice-racer is on a roll! Nice thread? What about the founder of the LFP Forum? Anyone have a shot of him to post?

[Michael Kadillak]

Great stuff. Thanks

[Dominique Cesari]

Depardon (by R. Lopez / La Provence)

[Darin Boville]

Crewdson

Not only is he not touching the camera but he's not even looking at/through it!

--Darin

[bgh]

Lest we forget one of the recently-deceased members of the fraternity, Julius Shulman:

[Dominique Cesari]

ice-racer is on a roll! Nice thread? What about the founder of the LFP Forum? Anyone have a shot of him to post?
Tuan (from his site)

[al olson]

http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2011/05/shooting-myself.html

Re: The subject of the 1951 photograph credited to Andreas Feininger

... is Dennis Stock. (The Great Life Photographers, 2004)
Feininger was behind the camera.

[36cm2]

Cornel Lucas
http://www.fishup.ru/files/2b/37/3a/lg_5889551_CornwithCamera.jpg

This is awesome.

[rdenney]

This is awesome.

Yes, ULF meets The Avengers.

Rick "but where's Mrs. Peel?" Denney

[Andrew O'Neill]

The only photos of famous photographers that I have is one of Kertez's hands, and one of AA driving, by David Vestal... Great thread!

[cowanw]

Here's a young Karsh

[Kirk Gittings]

Bill Schwab photographing me and Paul Paletti and Dumonte on wet plate-Steve Sherman in background.

[deadpan]

Not a picture i'm afraid, but kinda fits with this thread;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k-0J8Ww0TDU#at=89

[neil poulsen]

I agree now, the Norma doesn't have those center pivot points on the front standard. The Sinar head threw me off though.

John Wimberley uses a Sinar Norma 5x7 camera. Because of weight, he indicated a year or so ago that he would make more use of his Sinar kit for 4x5.

[jp]

Cool bunch of pix... The O W Link photo looks sorta red green show; wheres the duct tape ay....

Looks like Minor White is using a Tiltall like many of us.

A couple of the old graflex graphic view cameras are shown; the sort of thing you can't give away on c-list now.

Much of the equipment has not changed.

[megapickle1]

so many famous potographers I havn't heard about...:o

Here's one I know!

Josef Sudek

... and Sally Mann of course..

My two favourite photographers - LF or not..

Oh yes, Josef Sudek. He made me wanting to do LF-photography. A Genius of simplicity.
George

[leighmarrin]

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/5089/edward1.jpg (http://www.freecodesource.com/image-hosting/view/img846/5089/edward1.jpg/)

Edward Weston in action, from a 1940s US Camera Annual. Pouch on his belt appears to be for a Weston 715 meter.

[Bill_1856]

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/5089/edward1.jpg (http://www.freecodesource.com/image-hosting/view/img846/5089/edward1.jpg/)

Edward Weston in action, from a 1940s US Camera Annual. Pouch on his belt appears to be for a Weston 715 meter.

Why ain't his lens tilted down? Don't he know nothing about depth of field?

[ic-racer]

Bill Brandt
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/ic-racer/BillBrandt.jpg

[ic-racer]

Cecil Beaton
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/ic-racer/frameimage.jpg

[ic-racer]

Bourke White
http://www.vpr.net/uploads/photos/original/margaret_bourke_white_340x255.jpg

[lawrencebrussel]

Yes, I just read about the Edgar Praus . He is been doing great work.

[Michael Kadillak]

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/5089/edward1.jpg (http://www.freecodesource.com/image-hosting/view/img846/5089/edward1.jpg/)

Edward Weston in action, from a 1940s US Camera Annual. Pouch on his belt appears to be for a Weston 715 meter.

Curious about what looks like a metal rod between the back and front standard on top of the camera. Shooting stability for long exposures? Bellows sag?

[rknewcomb]

Curious about what looks like a metal rod between the back and front standard on top of the camera. Shooting stability for long exposures? Bellows sag?

I thought that was interesting too. That looks like an Agfa/Ansco camera which are really rigid already. But he felt the need for it anyway.

[al olson]

Curious about what looks like a metal rod between the back and front standard on top of the camera. Shooting stability for long exposures? Bellows sag?

Yes, there is actually a tab midway on the bellows of my Orbit to run the rod through. I don't see a tab in this photo however.

[lecarp]

I have the same camera (s). I also have a new version of the rod you discuss.
In good condition the agfa and ansco cameras are very stable, the addition of the rod even in a breeze makes them a rock when used with a good tripod.
Here is a link to the nehttp://www.filmholders.com/wskit.htmlw rod.

[Andrew Plume]

Bill Brandt
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/ic-racer/BillBrandt.jpg


unless I'm very wide of the mark, i believe the camera shown is a Kodak Universal whole plate, which was fixed focus, a bit like the Hobo (but only by way of a comparison)

andrew

[Andrew Plume]

some really great stuff on here everyone

thanks all for posting :)

andrew

[Vaughn]

Phineas T. Freakears with his LF camera. Too faraway for me to tell the make/model. Might be wet plate...

[johnmsanderson]

Eddie B

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/8181/burtynsky8x10.jpg

[gtoffoli]

Gabriele Basilico

http://www.archiphoto.it/img_categoria2/basilico_gabriele_web.jpg

[Helcio J Tagliolatto]

Silvino Santos, developing a glass negative in his "lab", during the Hamilton Rice's expedition from Manaus to Boa Vista. ( NatGeo, 1924)

http://infinitapaisagem.com/SilvinoSantosRevelando.jpg

[ImSoNegative]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5103/5646654124_100a2e88a2.jpg
Per Volquartz 2006 in the Alabama Hills. Nikkor 450mm on my 8x10.

there was a really good article about him in view camera magazine, were you the writer?

[mortensen]

Gursky and his Technikardan...

http://blog.zeit.de/zeitmagazin/files/2011/03/Andreas-Gursky-bei-der-Arbeit-540x303.jpg