Week 16 - 2016
Leica 1 (a) Elmar, 1925 (photo: Andreas Harvik/Preus museum)
Small but mighty
Leica demonstrates that it's not necessary to be big for great things to happen. With its small body this camera almost single-handedly changed how we saw the world through the eyes of photojournalists and documentary photographers.
It's not by chance that some of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium have been faithful to the Leica. It didn't have a threatening size, it was very quiet, and it could be taken into all corners of the world.