Picture: George Bernard Shaw

The follow picture was taken with a Minox 8x11 camera at

the picturesque town of Niagara-on-the Lake<p>

There is a Shaw Festival Theater, with year round Shaw plays

 

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George Bernard Shaw was a famous playwright, but the fact that he was

an avid photographer is less known.

<p> In fact, GBS's main hobby was photography. His first camera was

a wet plate 8x10" wet plate camera. GBS did darkroom work himself

did platinotype, gum-bichromate...

<p> Since 1930 he turn to miniature camera, his favourite camera

was Leica rangefinder. Many GBS's photographs show him carrying

his Leica.

<p> The following is the cover page of the book "Bernard Shaw on

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Bernard Shaw's camera was Leica I with Leitz Elmar 50mm/f3.5 lens

 

<p> The book contains more the forty photogaphs taken by

GBS himself-- charming pictures of a literature giant.

The cover photo of Bernard Shaw on Photography was taken by

famous Leica photographer Alfred Eisenstadt.

Many museaums collected GBS's photographs, including the Metropolitan Museaum of Art in New York, Smithonian Instute, Washington D.C, Priceton University, New Jersey, University of Texas, Austin, Texas and Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, Bath, England.<p> But the bulk of Bernard Shaw;s photographic collection is housed in British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2 AHD, LONDON, ENGLAND.