MTC Photography Posted January 6, 2001 Share Posted January 6, 2001 Last year I saw a picture of famous Irish playwrite George Bernad Shaw carrying a small camera on his shoulder. The camera looked very much like a thread mount Leica Any one has more information about Bernard Shaw's camera and photography ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted January 6, 2001 Author Share Posted January 6, 2001 Bernard Shaw was an avid Leica photographer <p> I found a thread here <p> <a href="http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/v02/msg11399.html">Bernard Shaw Leica photography</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted January 6, 2001 Author Share Posted January 6, 2001 About Eisenstadt's photo of GBS holding a Leica I <p> <a href="http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/v02/msg00410.html">GBS and Leica I</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted January 10, 2001 Author Share Posted January 10, 2001 <center><img src="http://web.ionsys.com/~martntai/pictures/canada/shaw1.jpg"></cent er><P> After a bit of research, I found that Bernard Shaw was an avid photographer, he enjoyed photography ( most probable Leica photography ) has his main hobby. <p> GBS not only took alot of photography, he also wrote about photography in magazines. <p> He left ten thousand photographs ( Leica pictures ?), now kept in the London School of Economics. <p> G. B. Shaws photography and writings on photography had being collected into two books<p> <ul><li>Bernard Shaw Through the Camera 1948 <li> Bernard Shaw on Photography 1989 </ul> These two books can be found in any large libraries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted January 10, 2001 Author Share Posted January 10, 2001 Bernard Shaw's last published work was <p> Bernard Bernard Shaw's Rhyming Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence, published in 1950.<p> He took all the photos and wrote the rhyms for the book. <p> Note: The statute in the previous post is located at the picturesque town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, where the Shaw Festival Theather has all year round Shaw plays. <p> The picture was taken with a Minox C camera. (Minox is a part of Leica ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted January 12, 2001 Author Share Posted January 12, 2001 I bought the book Bernard Shaw on Photography here is a picture of Bernard Shaw holding a Leica I with Leitz Elmar 50/3.5 on the dust jacket of the book<p><img src="http://web.ionsys.com/~martntai/manual/shawonph.jpg"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted January 13, 2001 Author Share Posted January 13, 2001 GBS used a lot of cameras, including a 10"x8" field camera with 30" extension bellow and Dallmeyer 20" Rapid Rectilinear lens. He also used Contax rangefinder . A photograph showed GBS holding a Rolleiflex TLR. He loved gadgetry and tried all sorts of developers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted January 13, 2001 Author Share Posted January 13, 2001 The bulk of Bernard Shaw's photographs ( more then ten thousands ) are housed in the Shaw Collection in British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics, 10 Portugal St, London WC2 AHD, England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted January 14, 2001 Author Share Posted January 14, 2001 About the Bernard Shaw photo on the cover of the book: Bernard Shaw on Photography(edited by Bill Jay and Margaret Moore), there is a fine print at the back of the cover:front cover photograph by Alfred Eisenstadt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted January 14, 2001 Author Share Posted January 14, 2001 According to Bill Jay and Margaret Moore's research, Bernard Shaw's photographs have being collected by many museums, among them <ul><li> George Eastman House in Rochester <li> Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York <li> Smithsonian Institude, Washington DC <li> University of Texas, Austin Texas <li> Royal Photographic Society of Britain, Bath, England.</ul> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted April 8, 2001 Author Share Posted April 8, 2001 Back cover of the book Bernard Shaw on Photography <p> <img src="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Leicaphile/files/Historic/shawb.jpg"> <p> Showing a GBS photograph of a charming lady in a row boat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msitaraman Posted April 9, 2001 Share Posted April 9, 2001 Pithy GBS quote (as always) captioning that last picture... <p> Now I don't have to feel like a complete incompetent when I get a roll back with only 1 picture really worth keeping in the long term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msitaraman Posted April 9, 2001 Share Posted April 9, 2001 </center>Gotta turn off that centering... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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