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Christian Werner Ana María Arévalo David Nissen Andy Summers
Nanna Heitmann
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8 6 | Leica Q2
Over 25 000 photographers present more than half a million images at the LFI Gallery. In this issue: a colourful mixture of structures, lines, and cityscapes
The exterior appears almost unchanged – inside, however, the new Q2 is fitted with a brand new sensor offering a significantly higher resolution and greater range of digital focal lengths
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9 0 | Sl Su m m i c r o n 3 5 Leica continue to expand their range of Summicron-SL lenses, gradually moving into the wide-angle realm. Matt Stuart tested the SL’s latest fixed focal length out in the field
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Andy Summers: Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, July 1981
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9 6 | M 1 0 - p “a s c 1 0 0 ” The Leica M10-P “ASC 100 Edition” is due to be released in autumn 2019, marking the 100th anniversary of the American Society of Cinematographers
Christian Werner 6 | Bonn
Werner takes us on a journey through time to the former seat of government, Bonn. A series capturing the flavour of the sixties and seventies
Nanna Heitmann 2 0 | K INGDOM O F M Y THS
The design of the Leica M 10-P “ASC 100 Edition” echoes elements of the Ur-Leica
Sparse steppes, enchanted forests and special people: the photographer catches magical moments along the banks of the Yinesei
Ana María Arévalo 36 | Dias Eternos
The young Venezuelan photographer captures strong images of daily life in detention centres, where access is normally denied
Photo London presents a carefully curated selection of exhibitions and galleries once more 1 1 7 | L e i c a G a ll e r i e s The programme of Leica Galleries around the world with, among others, Bruno Barbey in Istanbul and Don Bartletti & Nick Ut in Los Angeles 118 | exhibitions Inge Morath, Treviso; Scheltens & Abbenes, Amsterdam; Carlos Javier Ortiz & David Schalliol, Chicago; Saul Leiter, Antwerp; Joanna Piotrowska, London 120 | Books New publications by Felicia Honkasalo, Beat Schweizer and Antanas Sutkus as well as a catalogue raisonée by René Groebli 122 | my picture
David Nissen 50 | Light and Shadow
Using desaturated colours, the French photographer captures store fronts and motels in the USA, looking like film sets but devoid of any people
Anatol Kotte photographed the ill-humoured composer John Cage in Frankfurt 122 | imprint
Andy Summers 6 2 | a C e r ta i n S t r a n g e n e s s
The former guitarist of The Police has been a dedicated photographer for forty years. Now a new book with his images has been published
Cover: Nanna Heitmann, from the Hiding from Baba Yaga series
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For around five decades, Germany’s seat of government was located in the city of Bonn. In a collaborative book project with Joachim Bessing, German photographer Christian Werner takes a both ironic and nostalgic look at this era in the history of the Federal Republic.
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Nanna Heitmann k i n g d o m o f m y t hs
The Yenisei, one of the longest rivers in the world, was the guiding line that Nanna Heitmann followed through Siberia. Along its banks she met loners, dropouts and dreamers, and heard of the myths that are still very much alive there. The outcome is perceptive images from a distant world.
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Yuri lives with 15 dogs not far from the banks of the Yenisei. He has built himself a shack by the rubbish dump and enjoys the freedom that life offers him – away from cities and their inhabitants. He enjoys the expanses and the silence
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Daylight, which falls through the common area’s barred window, gives the women a sense of the time. Ana María Arévalo uses it very effectively as an aesthetic tool
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David Nissen L i g h t and S had o w
Located in a surreal spectrum somewhere between colour and black and white, David Nissen presents empty urban settings that are reminiscent of film sets. Behind his loaded, atmospheric typology lies a philosophical approach to loneliness.
A typical motel on a US highway, illuminated by a mixture of light from street lamps and the moon
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A hairy game of hide and seek, taken in February 1972 in San Francisco
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Brief encounters on the street: taken in Mexico, April 1991 (left) and in Tokyo, Japan, February 2008 (right)
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V i va l a r e s o lu t i o n Leica q2
At first glance, the new Q2 looks almost identical to its predecessor. Its interior, however, features a new sensor whose exceedingly high resolution opens up a host of extraordinary possibilities – including a virtual 75mm lens.
The Q2 is a remarkable addition to Leica’s product catalogue, owing both to its innovation as well as its continuity. On the one hand, this new model offers a greatly increased resolution of 47 MP, along with a number of other advancements. At the same time, however, the Q2 looks – and feels – almost exactly the same as its popular predecessor. Hi gh er r e solut ion.
When the first Q model was developed a few years ago, Leica decided to introduce a 24-megapixel sensor – offering a resolution which, at the time, was in a comparatively high bracket even for a full-frame camera. This gave the Q a unique appeal, and was undoubtedly instrumental to its extraordinary success. With the Q, Leica directly defied the prevalent 86 |
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market trend of producing ever smaller, more manageable compacts, which were equipped with small sensors and increasingly slow zoom lenses to provide the greatest possible range of focal lengths. The Leica Q and Q2, by contrast, are distinguished by a full-frame sensor; instead of a zoom, both models feature a fixed, 28mm lens with an impressive maximum aperture of f/1.7. This combination of a high-end, high-resolution sensor with an excellent, fast lens enables the Leica Q (and, even more so) the Q2 to simulate longer focal lengths through magnified auto-cropping. The first Q model was already able to render the narrower angles of view of a 35 and 50mm lens, in addition to the 28mm focal length of the camera’s
physical lens. Thanks to its significantly higher resolution, the Q2 now provides photographers with an additional virtual lens, this time with a focal length of 75mm. Of course, the narrower the angle of view, the lower the resolution – and indeed, the numbers illustrating this decrease initially look quite dramatic: while the camera’s 28mm lens captures images at around 47 MP, this drops to 30 MP when shooting with a simulated focal length of 35mm, followed by 14.7 MP at 50mm, and a mere 6.6 MP at 75mm. However, when looking at the actual resolution in terms of multiplication factors, the figures are far more reassuring: starting with an almost outlandish 8368 x 5584 pixels at a focal length of 28mm, you still get a substantial 6704 x 4472 pixels
at 35mm and an ample 4688 x 3128 pixels at 50mm. Even the 3136 x 2096-pixel resolution of the newly added 75mm ‘lens’ is still sufficient for a whole variety of applications. In short, its higher resolution enables the Q2 to go one step further than its predecessor, which delivered around 15 MP at 35mm, but only around 8 MP at 50mm. This meant that first-generation-Q photographers could quite happily alternate between 28mm and 35mm, but mostly avoided shooting at 50mm. With the Q2, on the other hand, the 50mm standard focal length can now be utilised without these former drawbacks – while 75mm has become the comparatively low-resolution option that will most likely be used the least. In other words, the Q2 provides a greater →
The Leica Q2’s exterior reveals little of the camera’s extensive overhaul, which includes a new sensor and improved operating concept. The excellent, fast lens remains almost unchanged, while the high-performance sensor now facilitates an additional, 75mm virtual lens
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G A M E W IT H A VIE W “I had planned to photograph the Manhattan skyline, which is why I only had one lens with me. Then I discovered the basketball players, but there was a fence that stopped me from getting any closer. I was immediately disappointed that I hadn’t brought a 75mm lens with me.” Rudy Mareel Leica M9 with Elmarit-M 28 f/2.8 Asph
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ch i n u p ! “For me, the Tivoli Gardens amusement park in Copenhagen is like a playground for photography. I’m inspired by the many happy faces and the magic lighting. My suggestion: always consider looking up, as you may just find the perfect image waiting for you.” Bo Nymann Leica Q, Summilux 28 f/1.7 Asph
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