George Bernard Shaw's Leica ?

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Last year I saw a picture of famous Irish playwrite George Bernad Shaw carrying a small camera on his shoulder. The camera looked very much like a thread mount Leica Any one has more information about Bernard Shaw's camera and photography ?

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 06, 2001

Answers

Bernard Shaw was an avid Leica photographer

I found a thread here

Bernard Shaw Leica photography

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 06, 2001.

About Eisenstadt's photo of GBS holding a Leica I

GBS and Leica I

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 06, 2001.

After a bit of research, I found that Bernard Shaw was an avid photographer, he enjoyed photography ( most probable Leica photography ) has his main hobby.

GBS not only took alot of photography, he also wrote about photography in magazines.

He left ten thousand photographs ( Leica pictures ?), now kept in the London School of Economics.

G. B. Shaws photography and writings on photography had being collected into two books

These two books can be found in any large libraries.

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 10, 2001.
Bernard Shaw's last published work was

Bernard Bernard Shaw's Rhyming Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence, published in 1950.

He took all the photos and wrote the rhyms for the book.

Note: The statute in the previous post is located at the picturesque town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, where the Shaw Festival Theather has all year round Shaw plays.

The picture was taken with a Minox C camera. (Minox is a part of Leica )

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 10, 2001.

I bought the book Bernard Shaw on Photography here is a picture of Bernard Shaw holding a Leica I with Leitz Elmar 50/3.5 on the dust jacket of the book



-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 12, 2001.

GBS used a lot of cameras, including a 10"x8" field camera with 30" extension bellow and Dallmeyer 20" Rapid Rectilinear lens. He also used Contax rangefinder . A photograph showed GBS holding a Rolleiflex TLR. He loved gadgetry and tried all sorts of developers.

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 13, 2001.
The bulk of Bernard Shaw's photographs ( more then ten thousands ) are housed in the Shaw Collection in British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics, 10 Portugal St, London WC2 AHD, England.

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 13, 2001.
About the Bernard Shaw photo on the cover of the book: Bernard Shaw on Photography (edited by Bill Jay and Margaret Moore), there is a fine print at the back of the cover:front cover photograph by Alfred Eisenstadt

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 14, 2001.
According to Bill Jay and Margaret Moore's research, Bernard Shaw's photographs have being collected by many museums, among them

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 14, 2001.
Back cover of the book Bernard Shaw on Photography

Showing a GBS photograph of a charming lady in a row boat

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), April 08, 2001.

Pithy GBS quote (as always) captioning that last picture...

Now I don't have to feel like a complete incompetent when I get a roll back with only 1 picture really worth keeping in the long term.

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), April 09, 2001.

Gotta turn off that centering...

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), April 09, 2001.
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