On Apr 2, 2005 9:45 AM, Jaume Lahuerta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These may be old news although I have browsed the > archives with no results. Anyway, here I go: > > I travelled to Berlin a couple of weeks ago. One of > the places that I visited was the Helmut Newton > Stiftung im Museum f�r Fotografie. It is very close to > the railway station next to the Zoo. > > You can find there 3 different exhibitions: > > Private properties: with Newton's personal belongings > (clothes, letters, exhibition posters, a kind of > reproduction of his office... and yes, cameras). > > Us and Them: with pictures made by him and his wife. > Including pictures of him dying in the hospital. Lots > of self-portraits and portraits of each other. > > Sex and landscapes: a selection of new and old > pictures containing nudes and landscapes. > > Among their cameras, there are a couple of Pentax LX, > at least one with the grip. One of them appeared in > one of Helmut's wife self-portraits. There were also > three prime lenses. Unfortunately, and strangely, they > were facing the wall, so I couldn't even see the > aperture values. The tallest one could be 'my' > M135/3,5, (given its size and the fact that I could > hardly see the 32 value in the aperture ring). I guess > all three were pre-A lenses. > I remember also a manual focus Nikon and a couple of > early autofocus Canon. Sorry, not really precise here. > > Well, I just wanted to share this experience, I found > it a really interesting place to stop by if you visit > the German capital. A paradise for modern architecture > lovers BTW. > > Regards from Barcelona, > Jaume >
Interesting report, Jaume. Thanks for sharing it with the list. Helmut with LXen, eh? Any of them have snakeskin covers? <LOL> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
