The German camera manufacturer is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its earliest prototype models with a video montage depicting some of the 20th century's most iconic images.
Camera manufacturer Leica is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its earliest prototype models with a video montage depicting some of the 20th century's most iconic images.
Among its 35 inspirations, the two-minute piece features versions of Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima behind a moonwalking Buzz Aldrin, Annie Leibovitz's portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the Identical Twins by Dianne Arbus, Alexander Rodchenko's Girl With Leica and a quartet of Henri Cartier-Bresson shots.
Commissioned by the new Leica Gallery in São Paulo and produced by Brazil's F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi agency, the montage explains that "the most iconic images in history, even the ones that weren't taken with a Leica, were taken 'because' of a Leica."
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