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20 000 photographers present over 300 000 pictures in the LFI Gallery. This time, Alice in a maze, different addictions and a visual road to photography
With the M10, Leica open up a new chapter in colour rendition: reason enough to take a close look at the colour characteristics of digital M cameras and the Leica SL
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8 6 | S u m m i l u x- SL 5 0 A lot of glass, but the autofocus is still fast – the first lens with fixed focal length for the Leica SL. Eleven lenses including two aspheric ones, ensure best imaging performance
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The S Magazine Lookbook: the Tussie-Mussies series by René & Radka
Autophoto, Paris; Larry Sultan, San Francisco; Scarlett Hooft Graafland, London; Irving Penn, New York; Helmut Newton, Nice 1 0 6 | F e s t i va l s
9 0 | H u aw e i P 1 0 At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the Chinese technology corporation Huawei introduced its new flagship smartphones with Leica Dual Camera 2.0, the P10 and the P10 plus
Bruce Gilden 8 | D e t r o i t: Aga i n st T h e W i n d
“The people I choose to photograph are symbols” – a trip to Detroit with Bruce Gilden
Sarah Caron 2 4 | ka las h
The last of their kind: the remnants of the Kalash in the north-west of Pakistan fight for their culture
Willard Pate 38 | with Animals The first fixed focal length for the SL system, the Summilux-SL 50mm f/1.4 Asph
The real illusion of a world where the connection between people and animals is defined by love
Roberto Salgo 44 | Steel Life
Calm and deceleration, where there is usually smoke and noise: the industrial still lifes by Roberto Salgo
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From France to Georgia: the Mois de la Photo du Grand Paris and Kolga Tbilisi 1 0 7 | L e i c a Ga l l e r i e s An overview of the programme of Leica Galleries around the world, with Toni Thorimbert, among others 108 | books New books by Giulio Rimondi, Peter van Agtmael, Thomas Hoepker, Emmanuel Georges and Mimi Mollica 1 1 0 | I n t e rv i e w Elisa Lees Muñoz, Executive Director of the International Women’s Media Foundation, about freedom of the press and women in the media industry 114 | my picture A laughing girl underlines PerAnders Pettersson’s memories of Soweto township 114 | imprint
Tasty morsels de luxe: 20 top-class portfolios reflecting the diversity of S/SL photography
Richard Sandler 68 | the eyes of the city
At a time when New York was still dirty: Richard Sandler documented the wild decades in his home town
Cover photo: Focus on Detroit © Bruce Gilden, Magnum Photos
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The Bumburet Valley in the Hindu Kush in the north-west of Pakistan, where the last remnants of the Kalash people live at 1500 metres above sea level
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Willard Pate with animals
On her various trips to Cuba and South America, the US photographer captured both people and animals sharing a common habitat. She reveals their love for each other, and their desire to maintain this connection.
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Intuitive compositions, luck and chance: these are the three things Willard Pate needs when taking pictures. She only sees the outcome when the pictures have been printed. The American photographs with film
This world appears like a dream. A dog keeps guard peacefully behind his shepherd; a lama stands in front of a backdrop of mountains, like kitschy wallpaper; a newly hatched chick experiences its first moments in a human’s comforting lap. Willard Pate’s With Animals creates the impression of an illusion: a journey deep into the past where people and animals lived together in harmony. In the black and white images we see the lively and the fictitious, wild animals and domesticated ones. In his 150 year-old poem, Song of Myself, American poet Walt Whitman described their pure natures saying: ‘I think I could turn and live with animals, they are
so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition.’ The words ‘with animals’ gave Pate’s project its title. Pate loves poetry. She is a Professor of English at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. In 2001, she became involved with photography and met the Italian photographer Ernesto Bazan in Cuba. He was living there at the time and teaching black and white photography. Pate gave his workshop as the reason for her travel because back then it was difficult for US citizens to visit the socialist island in the Caribbean. While there, she photographed Hemingway’s villa, his favourite bar and his boat, Pilar. And she met Bazan. “I consider Ernesto my most important mentor,”
she explains. “He makes it possible to go beyond the clichés of cultures. His vast knowledge of South America and Cuba makes it possible for me to meet people and have experiences I simply would not have on my own.” Subsequently she has attended another 25 of his workshops in Sicily, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Cuba. Instead of dancing girls at the Carnival in Rio, she photographed hard-working fishermen; in the lofty peaks of Peru, she captured shepherds herding their flocks. Later on, when working on a joint book project with Bazan, she was looking for a theme to connect all her work, a common thread as yet unrecognised. →
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Roberto Salgo Steel Life
Steel monsters, white mountains and faded colours – landscapes that few tourists in Sardinia will ever get to admire. With his industrial images, Italian photographer Robert Salgo has turned the factories and harbours of the island into monuments.
At a first glimpse, what looks like a ship in the snow turns out to be a freighter at Santa Giusta industrial port in Oristano, Sardinia, loading expanded perlite
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L e i c A s | SL
l o o k b o o k The first S Magazine Lookbook is a compendium of 20 high-end portfolios reflecting the remarkable versatility of S photography. Acclaimed artists and emerging talents unleash their full potential in this trailblazing magazine.
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Aglaja Brix & Florian Maas created a lascivious, Gothic-style allegory of a drop-out existence
Enrique Badulescu celebrates the colours and life on Tulum beach in Mexico (right)
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Richard Sandler THE EYE S OF THE C ITY
Equipped with a Leica, he has been photographing New York City every day for over four decades. Now the fruit of his labours can be found in a new photo book. Sandler’s pictures offer a direct impression of New York City at a time when it was still loud, dangerous and full of contradictions.
Sign of the times: back in the day, the New York subway was completely covered in graffiti offering endless discoveries for the photographer. CC Train, NYC 1985
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b e s t o f LFI . G a l l e r y
p l ayg r o u n d A funfair comes every year to the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris – it is the perfect place for a street photographer. It is not only the hearts of children that beat higher there: “I had just bought my first Leica a few days beforehand and was doing 28mm photography for the first time – an important step in my development.” Lu Wenpeng Leica Q, Summilux 28mm f/1.7 Asph
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