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L E I C A F O T O G R A F I E I N T E R N AT I O N A L
Bruce Davidson
Mathieu Bitton Anatol Kotte Charles March Tom Munro
An exploration on Trust By Jess Bonham and Anna Lomax
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The third section of the Leitz Park officially opens in June. We take a first look at the new World of Leica – from the overall design concept to architectural details and the new Leica Museum
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Leica introduced another special edition of the M Monochrom in New York in March. Designed by Marcus Wainwright the all black camera is known as the ‘Stealth Edition’
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We had to wait a long time, but finally the Apo-Summicron SL 75mm and the Apo-SummicronSL f/2 90mm Asph were made available for a test run
1 4 8 | F e s t i va ls From 2 July to 23 September, 2018, the organisation team will be presenting the 49th edition of Les Rencontres d’Arles
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The opening of the Leitz Park III is drawing closer: an opulent twovolume book dealing with the new Leica factory museum’s collection offers a first glimpse
Lee Miller at the Heptworth Wakefield in Yorkshire, Diane Arbus in Washington, Martin Schoeller in Rotterdam, Harold Feinstein in Paris and Henri Cartier-Bresson at the ICP, New York City
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He photographed for Life magazine, became a member of Magnum, and always looked for and found his own personal perspective. A homage
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Extremely high performance, even at wide-open aperture: the Apo-Summicron-SL lenses
Choreographer and catwalk trainer Jorge González poses in Havana: a grandiose setting with a sparkling protagonist
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Sleepless in Tokyo: the British fashion and celebrity photographer spent three days exploring the streets of the Japanese capital
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152 | books New publications by Kacper Kowalski, Samantha Dietmar, Carl de Keyzer and Guillaume Simoneau 1 5 3 | L e i c a G a ll e r i e s Leica Galleries around the world – a programme overview. Including Gideon Mendel, Bogdan Konopka, Hellen van Meene and Bruce Davidson 154 | my picture In Ghuangdong, François Fontaine captured an image that combines the China of yesteryear with the China of today
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Between hope and struggle: the intense black and white portraits of Afro-Americans will be on display at the Park in of 15 photos. June, 2018 Light. Motion. Moment. The Leica SL is Leitz the camera forWetzlar, capturingas special Its
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autofocus technology is among the fastest, and its revolutionary EyeRes® viewfinder provides complete control over each picture. Every time. Its 24 MP CMOS full frame sensor guarantees exceptional picture quality over the complete ISO range – from 9 2 | G L EANN BADRAI G 50 to 50000. Discover the power of the moment at leicasl.com.
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British photographer produced expressionist landscape LEICA SL. Fast. Direct. Mirrorless. images, reminiscent of paintings
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Nuclear ecologist, catwalk guru, fashion choreographer: Jorge González is the protagonist of Anatol Kotte’s latest project. Brimming with colour, the series captures the Let’s Dance judge in the vibrant city of Havana.
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High heels and eye-catching outfits are Jorge’s trademark – most of them were tailor-made by his friend, designer José Bénédi
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The concept is simple: 72 hours in Tokyo, little sleep and lots of activity. In this project Tom Munro presents a series of photographs that are the result of serendipity and his schooled eye.
“If you look at the works of Japanese photographers 72Tokyo certainly draws reference from and pays homage to that genre. I also drew inspiration from film, art, or just life as I see it. In part it is a celebration of the female form.�
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Mathieu Bitton’s raw black and white pictures reflect the everyday life of Afro-American citizens caught between hope and struggle. At the same time, he gives the hand – a body-part that rarely gets so much photographic attention – an effective stage.
Lines, wrinkles, markings – Mathieu Bitton sees hands as an expression of a person’s character
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Marcus Wainwright, designer of the Leica M Monochrom Stealth Edition, explains: “I get very stressed by frilly paraphernalia, I am obsessed with function.�
Inlaid with luminescent paint, the main engravings of the Stealth Edition camera and lens emit a subtle, greenish glow in the dark
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“A p l e as i n g s e n s e o f u r b a n i t y. � L e i t z Pa r k III
Since 2014, the nerve centre of Leica Camera AG is once again based in Wetzlar. Now the third section of the impressive Leitz Park complex is about to open its doors.
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When optical engineer Oskar Barnack pressed the shutter of his Liliput – now known as the ‘Ur-Leica’ – for the first time in 1914, Wetzlar became the birthplace of a new era in photography. For a long time, the German city was known primarily as the seat of the Imperial Supreme Court, where Goethe himself had completed a fourmonth internship. By the end of the 19th century, however, Wetzlar had become synonymous with the world-
The third construction phase is complete – epanding the Leitz Park premises with a hotel, new factory museum, the CW Sonderoptic production plant and an office tower
famous optical instruments made by the Ernst Leitz company. This product line, especially microscopes, eventually included the Leica camera, whose serial production started in 1925. The company relocated to the neighbouring city of Solms in 1980, and for many years it seemed as though
Leica’s history in Wetzlar was firmly relegated to the past. But life can be full of surprises: in 2007, construction for Leitz Park I started on the outskirts of Wetzlar. The 18 squarekilometre expanse was once an entrenchment field, and continued to be used by the army until the late 20th century. On completion, Leitz Park I became home to the companies Viaoptik and Uwe Weller Precision →
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The most well-known and distinguished photo festival in the world will, once again, bring together the international photo community under the sun of southern France. Director Sam Stourdz and his team will be presenting the 49th edition of the Rencontres d’Arles Festival, from 2 July to 23 September 2018. In a confused world full of wars, cyborgs and the unpredictable USA, Arles looks into the past in sections such as America Great Again with Robert Frank’s Sidelines and Raymond Depardon’s USA 1968–1999, as well as
Run comrade, the old world is behind you about the 1968 riots in Paris. In the Augmented Humanity section, the festival organisers try to draw conclusions for the future; this is where Matthieu Gafsou’s H+ series about transhumanism and body modification, and Jonas Bendiksen’s The Last Testament series suggest dystopian future scenarios. In the Dialogues section we find works by Jane Evelyn Atwood and Joan Colom – who in 20 year intervals portrayed people in similar ways in Paris and Barcelona respectively –
exhibited opposite each other. As special festival guests, the Palais de Tokyo and the Opéra National de Paris, two cultural icons, are given the opportunity to present their perspectives on photography. The renowned Prix Pictet that honours environmental and societal photography will be celebrating its ten-year jubilee in Arles with an exhibition of all the former winners and during a ceremony at the Théâtre Antique, announcing the theme for the next competition cycle. www.rencontres-arles.com
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Clockwise from the far left: Jane Evelyn Atwood Pigalle, Paris, France 1978–1979; William Wegman Casual, 2002; Raymond Depardon Manhattan, New York, 1981, Paul Graham New Orleans, from A Shimmer of Possibility, 2003–2006; Candida Höfer Elbphilharmonie Hamburg; Herzog & de Meuron, Hamburg VIII, 2016
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