Picasso

This reminds me of a mate who went to see Henri-Cartier-Bresson about thirty years ago to show him his work.

I can recall hearing the bell ringing downstairs and looking out the window with his wife to see him waiting to be let back in.

It was as though he had met God. He was enthousiastic and effusive, and said "well, and you know what he did at the end-he shook my hand!!"

He refused thereafter to wash it.

But seriously folks, I am now glad my kids will want for nothing, as my machines may sell for more than I ever earned in an entire lifetime of pain stress and effort!

M3D?

Does anyone viewing this site know anything about the Leica M3D I see that it has a Leicavit winder and external frame counter so similar to the mid 50s MP. However, it clearly says M3D on the top.

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http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0405/burrows_ddd.html

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/Leica/Leica-M3/Leica-MP/index.htm

These links explain that there are FOUR of them modified for him and the D stands for Duncan, simples.

The four still exist according to the first link, it is why they are special, if you like war memorabilia. How much would Hitler's be worth, a friend of mine joked this evening. Or Freud's?

Machines are worth more than the photographs that possibly they made (unproveable) and are worth more than the people they photographed, or the photographer who took them, but to whom, I wonder. Who paid such a sum for a secondhand camera, for obsolete technology? And did they know there are another three like it?

Not quite as bad as that Cindy Sherman print, but getting there.

The West appears to have reached its moral and spiritual nadir.

Will they auction slices of Einstein's brain? or Picasso's paintbrushes?

M3D

David Douglas Duncan...M3D....if it was Sally Susan Smith ...M3S...and so on ..