Robert Lebeck

<p>As I could not find a hint on PNET I drop this one.<br>

By chance I came along Robert Lebeck in an article in the German weekly paper "Die Zeit" and think it's worth to be mentioned here.<br>

http://www.lebeck.de/</p>

<p>Regards Axel</p>

 

<p>Thank you for sharing that Axel. His images brought me great joy!</p>

<p>Axel, Thanks so much for sharing this site. It is SO WONDERFUL to see images made with film, with real grain and everything<g>. Does he shoot with a Leica, do you know?</p>

<p>wonderful stuff axel! this is what i call photography!</p>

<p>Michael,<br>

I think yes, but I have to check the article in the paper again, if I find it.<br>

He had 65 or 70th birthday lately and he got a M8 as present by his wife. So he only stared digi now.<br>

I can not imagine this images done without film.<br>

Yes the grain - - - inspires me to do 'grain' again.<br>

Regards Axel</p>

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<p>Thank you for posting this Axel. I've always admired Lebeck's work. Especially those photos taken during Franco's era in Spain.</p>

<p>To me that generation (Lebeck, Robert Doisneau, Tomatsu Shomei and earlier American Walker Evans to name a few) were/are the really great street/reportage photographers. There is much to learn from the legacy they left for us.</p>

<p>Scot,<br>

>to name a few<br>

Yes, but I did not hear/know about Lebeck before and thought to find more on PNET, so I was surprised to find nothing about him on PNET.<br>

>There is much to learn from the legacy they left for us.<br>

Yes - admiring and learning, being inspired etc pp.</p>

 

This is an old-ish post so maybe no one is checking any longer, but Steidl recently published Lebeck's glorious trilogy of

books, TOKYO, MOSCOW, LEOPOLDVILLE in paperback in a slipcase:

http://www.steidlville.com/books/561-Tokyo-Moscow-Leopoldville.html

 

A huge proportion of the work on Lebeck's website features in these three volumes -- it's all work from the late-50s and 60s.

 

The website is also one of the most beautiful (both in function and content) that I know of. I guess the work is scanned from

premiuim quality prints and this explains their superb quality on the website.

 

Grab the book while it's available -- Steidl stuff has a habit of going O/P very quickly.

 

And no, I don't have any connection with Steidl -- just someone who's very happy to have discovered a lifetime's pleasure in

Lebeck's work!

 

-- Alun