30 Legendary Photos To Celebrate 100 Years of Leica Photography
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— kuchiFm Fotos (@hacerfotos) December 11, 2014History can be written – or photographed. For 100 years now, famous photographers from around the world have been capturing once-in-a-lifetime moments with their Leica camera. Moments that remain unforgettable.
Perhaps the most famous of all timeless, iconic photos can be seen in our film. So go on a journey through time with Leica. With impressive pictures that you can rediscover every time you view them. And which you will never forget.
PICTURES FOR ETERNITY
A picture is worth a thousand words – and yet can take our breath away. When it shows endless joy. When it documents unimaginable suffering. When it brings us closer to untouchable legends. Or when it saves the blink of an eye for eternity. With their Leica, throughout 100 years, photographers have been capturing such moments. And we have been looking inward for a moment.
Everything started in March 2014, when the first, fully functional prototype of a revolutionary new still picture camera for 35 mm perforated film was completed by Oskar Barnack in March 1914.
Ur-Leica, 1914
The camera had a full metal body, a collapsible lens and a focal plane shutter, which, at the time, had no overlapping curtains. A cap, fixed to the lens by a screw, was swung across the lens when winding on the film to prevent light getting in. The Ur-Leica was the first camera to feature coupled film winding and shutter cocking – thus preventing double exposures. The camera took its place as a milestone in the history of photography under the name ‘Ur-Leica’.
Leica: that means best German Engineering and a special culture of the picture.
From Henri Cartier-Bresson to Neil Libbert, many of the 20th century’s defining images were shot on a Leica:
New York – Ernst Leitz II, 1914
Flood in Wetzlar – Oskar Barnack, 1920
Self-portrait in mirrors – Ilse Bing, 1931
Oskar Barnack at his workplace – Julius Huisgen, 1934
Girl with Leica – Alexander Rodchenko, 1934
LZ 129 “Hindenburg” at its mooring mast at Rhine-Main airport – Dr. Paul Wolff and Alfred Tritschler, 1936
Death of a Loyalist Soldier – Robert Capa, 1936
V-J Day – Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945
The flag of victory – Yevgeny Khaldei, 1945
Guardia Civil – W. Eugene Smith, 1950
London – Inge Morath, 1953
Le Peintre de la Tour Eiffel – Marc Riboud, 1953
Self-portrait – UMBO (aka Otto Umbehr), 1952
New York – Louis Stettner, 1954
James Dean on Times Square – Dennis Stock, 1955
Regular guest at the Café Hawelka, Vienna – Franz Hubmann, 1956–57
The dwarf – Bruce Davidson, 1958
The stolen sword – Robert Lebeck, 1960
Che Guevara – Alberto Korda, 1960
Wild horses in Kenya – Professor Ulrich Mack, 1964
Muhammad Ali – Thomas Hoepker, 1966
Napalm attack in Vietnam – Nick Út, 1972
Man with bandage – Fred Herzog, 1968
Swimming pool designed by Alain Capeilières – Martine Franck, 1976
San Cristobál – René Burri, 1976
New York City – Elliott Erwitt, 1974
England – Gianni Berengo Gardin, 1977
Waterloo (from the “Roots” cycle) – Harry Gruyaert, 1981
From the “Feine Leute” cycle – Herlinde Koelbl, 1985
Under a grudging sun – Alex Webb, 1986–1988
Perfect peace – Kai Wiedenhöfer, 1994
Sidewalk – Jeff Mermelstein, 1995
No title (from the “Go” cycle) – Bruce Gilden, 2000
THE 100 film marks a century of Leica cameras, and 100 Years of Contributing to Photography
The two minute film highlights the influence of the German brand which, through its cameras, helped move photography from the studios and bring it into real life, expanding the universe for photographers and forever changing the relationship of mankind with this form of art.
In order to convey all of the effects of this influence, the film shows more than 35 famous photographic records that represent the history of photography: it acts as a recollection of spontaneous images that were captured on camera and sensitized the world. Scene direction is signed by Jones + Tino, from Stink.
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