On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote:
> they had an exhibition of his work at the Magnum office in London a few > weeks ago so I went along to see it. Maybe it's the same one. I was > interested to see that they had printed 2 other negs of the Nixon Kruschev > encounter which I've never seen before. They don't show up on the Magnum > website either. What fascinated me is that in the background you can see > Mike Wilson. Until you look a bit closer, and it turns out to be Leonid > Brezhnev as just a face in the crowd Might have been the same exhibition, but if it was they left out the "other two" prints of Nixon/Krushchev - they only had the "famous" one. Great story behind it: Erwitt was in Moscow on assignment to photograph refrigerators for an American trade show. He's walking through the airport and he's right there as Nixon and Krushchev pass each other. None of the press photographers were there, or if they were, they all missed the shot that he got. Right place, right time. Sometimes it pays (literally) to be lucky. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
