OSKAR BARNACK: Revolutionized Photography

Oskar Barnack's Ur-Leica
"The small format 35mm camera created a revolution in photography"

Hohenzollernbrücke, Cologne
Photograph (c) Oskar Barnack

Eselstreppchen, 1914
Photograph (c) Oskar Barnack

Flood, Langgasse, 1920
Photograph (c) Oskar Barnack

Eisenmarkt
Photograph (c) Oskar Barnack

Self Portrait, 1914
Photograph (c) Oskar Barnack

"Oskar Barnack's genius idea of creating the small format 35mm camera created a revolution in photography"

Oskar Barnack wanted to move away from the traditional, heavy plate cameras then used for most photography. As early as 1905, he had the idea of reducing the negative format and enlarging the photographs at a later stage. Ten years later Barnack developed the Ur-Leica, the first successful small-format camera. The photographs created in 1914 were of outstanding quality for the time. Delayed due to World War I the first LEICA did not enter series production until 1924 and introduced to the public in 1925.(more about the history of the Leica here).

Many thanks to New York Leica Gallery Director's, Rose A. Deutsch and Jay R. Deutsch, for introducing me to the Leica creator. Oskar Barnack Room, Leica Gallery, NY

BILL EPPRIDGE: Kennedy Campaign Trail

Bobby Kennedy campaigns into the night, 1968
Photograph (c) Bill Eppridge/All Rights Reserved

Bobby Kennedy with crowd during the 1968 Presidential race
Photograph (c) Bill Eppridge/All Rights Reserved

Robert Kennedy, New York City
Photograph (c) Bill Eppridge/All Rights Reserved

Senator Robert Kennedy at a rally, Sioux City, Iowa, 1966
Photograph (c) Bill Eppridge/All Rights Reserved

Busboy Juan Romero tries to comfort Presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy. The burned master vintage print used for reproduction in LIFE Magazine of Senator Robert F. Kennedy Shot, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, Ca, June 5, 1968. Photograph (c) Bill Eppridge/All Rights Reserved

July 2-Sept 26, 2010

"An American Treasure"

Photographs by Bill Eppridge

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe

AIPAD NYC: March 19-20

Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, Texas
Revelation 2004 by Sean Perry (left) Kate Breakey Wall (right)
Also Rocky Schenck, Geoff Winningham, Bill Wittliff

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
The burned master vintage print by Bill Eppridge of
Senator Robert F. Kennedy Shot, Ambassador Hotel Kitchen, Los Angeles,
California, June 5, 1968. (description below)

Description of burned Vintage Photograph above of Senator Robert F. Kennedy Shot, Ambassador Hotel Kitchen, Los Angeles, California, June 5, 1968. Photograph by Bill Eppridge.

Photograph by Sally Mann

M + B Gallery, Los Angeles
Media Consultant Richard Mauro at AIPAD 2010.
Photograph by Erwan Frotin "Eryngium Maritimum"

Doug and Mike Starn

Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe, NM
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Beaumont Newhall, William Clift,
Edward Weston, Minor White...

Henri Cartier-Bresson at Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe

AIPAD Photography Exhibition and Sale
All Weekend March 19-20
Park Avenue Armory, New York City