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Over 23 000 photographers present more than 300 000 pictures in the Leica Gallery. Included in this issue: mounted police in Times Square, a flamingo in Belgium, and a lady and her dog
Matthias Harsch has been the new CEO of Leica Camera AG since September 2017. We spoke about the core of the brand, possible changes and the challenges of the market
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9 4 | SL l e n s e s Two new short teles for the SL system: with the Apo-Summicron SL 75mm and 90mm f/2 Asph, Leica have made a significant leap forward
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Sarah Lee: from her 2017 series Tender Are the Nighthawks
9 8 | Ac c e s s o r i e s Indulgence or necessity? From leather carrying straps and colourful protectors to powerful flash units and useful thumb rests: trimmings and accessories for the Leica CL and TL2
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False colours, surrealistic body poses and a Greek island to play on, give rise to exciting experiments
Jakob Schnetz 2 4 | c h r o n o l o g y o f a fa i l u r e
The title does not sound very promising – but the series offers deep insight into post-Soviet states of mind
Lorenzo Tugnoli Mistakingly similar: the Apo-Summicron 75 and 90mm f/2 Asph
New publications by Christian Maillard, Naomi Harris, Jan Grarup, Patrick Willocq, and Susan Meiselas
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The Naba’a district in Beirut has become a home for refugees from all over the world. A visit
Fabio Bucciarelli 6 0 | s o u t h s u da n
The birth of a State emerging from a spirit of poverty – an unsettling longterm documentary
Sarah Lee
The programme of Leica Galleries around the world. An overview, including: Julian Lennon, Nick Ut, Ralph Gibson, Ram Shergill and Ellen von Unwerth 116 | Exhibitions André Kertész, Genoa; Ed van der Elsken, Madrid; Jacob Riis, Amsterdam; William Eggleston, New York; Another Kind of Life, London 1 1 8 | I n t e rv i e w Talking about selection criteria, the changing market, and the right feedback with Michael D. Davis of the Alexia Foundation 122 | my picture French photographer Corentin Fohlen is still proud today of this photo; it marks the beginning of his career 122 | imprint
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Sleepless in London: a melancholic series of portraits taken between midnight and morning twilight
Helen Levitt 78 | S t r e e t l i f e
Her work as a Street Photographer is unmistakable: a homage to a New York legend
Cover Photo: AnaHell & Werner Amann, from the Flash & Bones series
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Jakob Schnetz spent six months in Tomsk in western Siberia. The series he produced there can be seen as an exploration of presenting images outside traditional patterns. The photographer offers extraordinary insight into the post-Soviet state of mind.
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Bucciarelli travels regularly to South Sudan for his longterm project, documenting the emergence of the young country. As warm as the colours in the pictures appear to be, what they reveal is all the more dramatic: the devastating consequences of ethnic conflicts on the people.
Cholera is just one of the consequences of the bloody civil war. In Mingkaman, relatives accompany a sick Dinka woman to a medical facility
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Sarah Lee Tender are Th e N i g h t haw k s
In search of nighttime melancholy: for her new series, the British photographer observed tired nighthawks on their way home. The potential for sublime atmospheric colours and lighting that Sarah Lee discovered during her nightly bus rides in London seems to be endless.
A last cigarette before the night bus arrives – impressions of a tired city in the middle of the night
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Helen Levitt S TREET LIFE
Rarely has a photographer observed her contemporaries as perceptively as Helen Levitt. A new photo book honours her early work, and illustrates her mastery of capturing immaculately composed images.
The street is a stage: people taking a rest, or children at play amidst the bustle of city life (New York City, around 1940)
“ t h e f o c u s i s o n t h e i m ag e .” I n t e rv i e w
It has been six months since Matthias Harsch was appointed CEO of Leica Camera AG – the perfect time for a first interview. Here he discusses the company’s brand essence as well as some of the key areas of focus for the future.
As of September 2017, Matthias Harsch has been at the helm of Leica Camera AG – having joined the company earlier that year as a board member responsible for Sales, Retail and Marketing & Corporate Communications. He has previously held the position of CEO at the renowned entertainment electronics manufacturer Loewe AG (effecting the company’s successful turnaround) and managing director at the Bizerba Group. Before joining Leica, Matthias Harsch was a partner at Candidus Management Consulting. 88 |
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LFI: In your view, what does Leica stand for? How would you describe the current essence and core message of the brand? Matthias Harsch: A company achieves the status of a tradition-steeped brand for a reason. It means that within its field, it has clearly been delivering the right solutions at the right time over prolonged periods. This is what determines the essence and core message of the brand. The appeal then lies in simultaneously maintaining and developing this core. In other words, to ensure the brand’s con-
tinuous adaptation to a changing world, whilst taking the greatest care not to distort or abandon its essence – and to never take it into an arbitrary direction based on imprudent impulses. To me, the brand essence of Leica lies in consistently offering the right – the essential – solution in response to the challenges within photography at a given point in time. Our task, our mission, if you will, therefore consists of always giving the photographer the exact tool which, with the application of creativity and expertise, allows
him to achieve not only the very best possible results, but also to imbue these results with a significance that goes beyond the here and now, but extends 10, 20, perhaps even 100 years into the future. This really is crucial, considering that a good photograph captures a moment that can never be reproduced in the same →
CEO Matthias Harsch, pictured in the entrance lobby of Leica’s headquarter building. In the background: glass art created by Alfons Alt, titled Kreiswerk
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george “This picture was taken in the Australian surfing capital of Torquay. I had Ian make a surf board for my husband. Ian’s English bulldog, George, followed my every step. It was just like a scene from Star Wars: Ian with his protective mask and George adding the Darth Vader-like sounds.” Liz Loh-Taylor Leica M9 with Summicron-M 35mm f/2 Asph
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