중앙일보에 나온 올드카메라에 대한 아티클 보구서... 왠지 다른 신문에 난 카메라에 대한 기사들이 궁금해져서 뉴욕 타임즈를 뒤져보다가 2007년에 Nan Goldin가 쓴 짧은 라이카에 관한 이야기가 있네요.....
그냥 라이카에 대한 이야기라서 링크라도 걸어봅니다.

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2007/...eName=02camera

Camera Ready
Nan goldin relies on her trusty lieutenant.

Leica’s the first real relationship I’ve ever had with a camera. I’d always hated Leica men: I thought of them as really macho men who went to India and poor places in the world and thought they knew them without spending any time there. But my close friend Peter Hujar used one. (He used to tell me that if he didn’t like the lens, he would take it back to the store and try them until he liked one.) So I got my first Leica in 1990. Since then, I’ve dropped them, I’ve broken them, I’ve had them stolen on the subway, I’ve lost them in taxis.

When I was working on the Mira Nair film ‘‘Monsoon Wedding,’’ I fell almost 10 feet into an empty pool. As I was falling, I hallucinated that the Leica was my baby. I held it against my chest and landed with all my weight on my wrist and broke it into a million pieces. But I saved my Leica. Over the years, I’ve learned that the lens is a very subjective relationship. The reason I use a Leica is because it actually has a subtext. It depends on what you’re photographing, but the lens shows you not just the surface: the levels underneath are revealed. Somebody told me once how optically this was possible. I just thought it was magic. n

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