page_title: Leica Camera
section_title: Notable adherents and photographers
hierarchical_section_title: Leica Camera / Notable adherents and photographers
caption_attribution_description: English: Henri Cartier-Bresson's first Leica (model Leica I) Suomi: Henri Cartier-Bressonin ensimmäinen Leica-kamera (malli Leica I)
context_page_description: Leica Camera AG is a German company that manufactures cameras, lenses, binoculars, rifle scopes, microscopes and ophthalmic lenses. The company was founded by Ernst Leitz in 1869. The name Leica is derived from the first three letters of his surname and the first two of the word camera: lei-ca.
  Leica Camera AG is 45% owned by The Blackstone Group which licenses the Leica brand name from the independently owned Leica Microsystems GmbH.
context_section_description: The Leica is particularly associated with street photography, especially in the mid-to-late 20th century, being used by such noted photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Ara Güler, Robert Frank, Bruce Gilden, Bruce Davidson, Inge Morath, Martine Franck, Sebastião Salgado, Alex Webb, Joel Meyerowitz, Garry Winogrand, Mark Cohen and Ralph Gibson.
  It was also used by wartime photojournalists such as Larry Burrows, Isaac Kitrosser, Alfred Eisenstaedt and David Douglas Duncan.
caption: Henri Cartier-Bresson's first Leica
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