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...Manufactured by Kyocera, the G1 combines the compact, noiseless flexibility of a rangefinder with the auto-everything magic of SLRs--minus the blinking lights, beeping sounds and bulk. With its four state-of-the-art Carl Zeiss T* lenses, the G1 is a thoroughly modern version of the classic Leica, proof that retro is the wave of the future...
...German-Jewish surgeon, Bettmann was 12 when he began collecting discarded medical illustrations from his father's wastebasket. As curator of rare books at the Berlin State Arts Museum, he began obsessively photographing illustrations, lithographs, old prints and any other images within focal reach of his Leica. In 1935 Bettmann fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. with $5 and his father's best suit. He also took with him two steamer trunks of exposed 35-mm film. This trove grew into what Bettmann, a courtly scholar as well as a clever businessman, proudly merchandised as a "complete history of civilization...
...Dirschau, Prussia, a town now in Poland. A man with a lifelong taste for whatever was close-in, informal and unofficial, he came to photography at the very moment handheld cameras were at last making it possible to take pictures in the same unbuckled mood. Seen through Eisenstaedt's Leica, public events became less ceremonious, while ordinary people took on scale and emotional weight. After he fled Hitler, those were the qualities that recommended him to the editors of LIFE, where in 1936 he became one of its four original photographers. It was part of his gift to recognize that...
...traveled to Kenya, China and Siberia, and his photographs have appeared in LIFE, National Geographic, Geo and Smithsonian. Balog's 1990 book, Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife, a collection of animal portraits taken in zoos, circuses and on wildlife ranches around the world, won the prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence. Though this is his first TIME cover, his work has already been featured in the magazine, including a photo of a 13-year-old teaching two septuagenarians at a computer terminal, which ran in TIME's Machine of the Year issue in January...
Sparks is familiar with life in the townships and cities, but the ethos of contemporary South Africa is conveyed with even greater intensity in Richard Stengel's January Sun. Stengel, a TIME contributor, has the eye of a Leica and the sensitivity of a light meter. He focuses on a single day in the Transvaal town of Brits, where three men spend their separate, unequal lives. Ronald de la Rey, a white veterinarian, parrots the Boer tradition: "I think the idea of apartheid makes you more aware of the differences between people than the similarities. It's in our subconscious...