Word: contax
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...magazines (The Stage, Vogue, Vanity Fair, American Magazine, Cottier's, Town & Country) and he held a one-man show. The 200 photographs on the walls of the Atlantic Beach Club at Long Beach, L. I. Last week were chiefly on theatrical subjects, all unposed. A tiny Contax camera looking like a child's harmonica, with a rapid-fire F 1.3 lens had turned them out the size of a special delivery stamp. Lohse had enlarged them six times and in their tight, strong compositions the subjects still looked natural...
Like Candid Cameraman Erich Salomon, Photographer Lohse has no secret technique, depends on snapping well-composed pictures, developing and enlarging them himself. His F 1.3 lens is the fastest used, excepting only the cinema's F 1.4. His little Contax special cost him $225 (the lens alone $170), a telephoto attachment to catch long-distance candid shots $80 more. He has a right angle telescope-finder to snap people while they think he is snapping someone else...