Leica
Subtitle: Witness to a Century
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780393059212
Description: "This book relates the epic story of the invention and the nearly one-hundred-year development of the Leica. In so doing, it matches for the first time the emotional charge of two hundred famous images - and the stories of the more than forty photographers who took them - to the historical evolution of this astonishing photographic instrument. Here we encounter the work and lives of the greats, among them Paul Wolff, Andre Kertesz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Capa, and Elliott Erwitt. All fourteen Leica models are presented in double-page color images, with the relevant historical explanations and technical data. Also detailed are foreign efforts to copy the Leica's genius."--BOOK JACKET.