flemming_s._christensen1

http://www.16-9.net/lens_tests/

Not exactly what you ask for, but may be close.

I am tempted to add Sue Anna Joe to some of the lists suggested.

She is a young photographer (25) far from the American continent and old Europe. The students will adore her work.

http://www.photo.net/photos/SueAnnaJoe

Tina Modotti? She loved men, ideas, art, human rights and revolution. She is seen here at an interrogation by the Mexican police.

http://www.sax.it/libro_modotti.htm

I traced her images and found a few nice shots. Is she a must? Any hints are welcome, please.

Andy, it might interest you to have look at this survey

http://www.naturfotograf.com/lens_norm.html

Kier, at Greccos home page his bio says:

Grecco works with an unrivalled technical ability and a rare sensitivity.

http://www.michaelgrecco.com/about.php

And the tricks at The Digital Journalist , January, Issue 111, here

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0701/grecco02.html

If you have got his gear and technical ability then the only thing left to rival is his rare sensitivity!

Go ahead!

Allan, these MTF curves of the Planar 1.4/50 ZF indicate softness full open and excellent performance at f5.6

http://www.zeiss.de/C12567A8003B8B6F/EmbedTitelIntern/Planar_1-4_50_ZFen/$File/P1_4_50ZF_EN.pdf

Just what I have experienced myself.

You might check MTF curves for the forthcoming Macro-Planar 2/50 ZF as well.

Jenni, since you mention Barbara Kruger I would just remind you of a post by Sally McKay-LePage about similarities in the work of Dorothea Lang and Barbara Kruger here

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00JJMR&tag=

Clarence White used anatomical latex body parts for her grotesque images, and Jenny Saville made photographs based on many hours of observation in a plastic surgery. Just a hint.

Sally, Happy New Year and please accept my apologies for making you even think of the state of your garage on this first happy day of the year. Your link was terrific, thank you.

Langes later work apparently had a more personalized artistic expression where

ideas were translated into pictures and it may be that the final results of this course will help advance the frontiers of this visual language

as she put it herself.

Sally, you mentioned Dorothea Lange had a desire to fuse text and image. Is this immanent in her later work, which images in particular, any hints? I have browsed The Library of Congress, may be there are other sources?

Flemming