Jim Leisy's blog

Leica Week

I am proclaiming this Leica week. To commemorate it I am including links to various YouTube
videos about the camera.

The way Leicas handle and feel... they simply are beautiful cameras. I have never owned one.
Twice I have come close to buying an M2 with a 35mm lens.

So here are some links:
Wim Wenders with a Leica M8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFT-duedoV4&feature=related
A ludicrous M7 ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSJcQiLcl4&feature=related
Handling an M3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXriQG6uOoQ&feature=related

YouTube: An Educational Treasury

YouTube. What a word. What a place. Two weeks ago I meant to post these links. I was searching
for interviews with Harry Callahan on YouTube. This is how I discovered this cable tv show from the
early 80s hosted by a curious [both definitions] Babaralee Dimonstein. The show was called Vision and
Images. Duke University has an archive of the shows here:

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/dsva/

These are some favorites:

Harry Callahan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LhYs5eq5nw
Elliot Erwitt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWm56d4mAEw&feature=channel

A Workshop with Linda Connor

A few weeks ago I took a photography workshop with Linda Connor. It was
intended to help you refine your photographic vision. The experience
is still resonating. A lot was packed into the workshop, I am still unpacking from it.

She is one of the great photographers [and teachers]. I carry several of her landscapes
and portraits around in my head. And she is a direct link to another hero of mine
Harry Callahan; he was one of her teachers at the Rhode Island School of Design.
She shared some great stories about her time with him. Once a young museum

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