New player... non human intelligence came to my door last night and asked for money. The tribe gathered round to see. Memaids... -----Original Message----- From: photoforum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:photoforum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Davidhazy Sent: 06 April 2015 16:48 To: PhotoForum educational network Subject: The first "candid" photographer The first "candid" photographer The person who is generally credited with being the first available light "candid" photographer is Dr. Erich Solomon who photographed the social elite in Berlin, Germany,and politicians and diplomats during the late 1920's and early 1930's with a 1 3/4 x 2 1/4 glass plate or cut, sheet, film camera called the Ermanox, fitted with an f/1.8 Ernostar lens. The Ermanox was introduced by the Ernemann-Werke (Works) of Dresden, Germany, in 1924. It was said that "There are just three things necessary for a League of Nations conference: a few Foreign Secretaries, a table and Salomon". On seeing Salomon's photographs, so utterly different in revelation from the traditional, posed, studio portraits or the formal, flash-powder illuminated, group photos, an English editor called them "candid photographs", a phrase which stuck with the public. Ironically, the camera most suited to Salomon's approach, and which came to be dubbed as the "candid camera", was the Leica, the camera designed by Oscar Barnack and introduced by the Ernst Leitz company in 1924 and which was the forerunner of all 35mm cameras of today. excerpted by ADavidhazy from the book The History of Photography, by Beaumont Newhall, Director of the George Eastman House, 1964.
