Plaque commemorating 100 years of Leica Oskar Barnack tin plate Nice anniversary of Pewter Shield to honor Oskar Barnack: It is recorded: Oskar Barnack 1879-1979 Pioneer of photography in 35mm The inventor of the Leica 18cm x 18cm around x 5mm Condition: B: fully functional condition, good condition, signs of normal use. PhotoAlps ArtNo. 11818
left, the plaque, faithful face of Oskar Barnack (right)
Oskar Barnack was an engineer of the German company Lei tz Ca mere AG (which later became known worldwide for Leica ) and suffered from asthma, which prompted him to try. reduce the size and weight of cameras to take pictures outdoors in fact, Oskar was also one of the first photographers they made reports charts which could be seen the relationship of people with their environment
Between 1913 and 1914, Oskar managed to adapt for photographic uses the format of 35mm film which is then used in the film, giving life to the first chamber of small format, which began in 1924: the Leica I. He is known as" the house of the twentieth century" and achieved worldwide fame after it became public that photographers as prestigious as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson used it in their daily work with this camera pictures so famous were taken like this.:
what perhaps is not as it known is that. the Leica camera served as a pretext to save the lives of thousands of Jews during the Nazi the Leitz, a Protestant family, owners of the company, they devised how to send Jews to abroad without attracting too much attention. hired Jewish workers in his factory, the formed and later sent them to America, France, United Kingdom and Hong Kong under the pretext of working there was risky, if While the Nazi government did not interfere, perhaps because some of his KITS aRE depended on them, such as the Leica 250 that the German army used their reconnaissance flights.
1979 , on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of its most important character, created the Prize Leica Oskar Barnack , awarded each year to a photographer highlighted, and . worth 5,000 euros the German company held overhand the centenary, with various designs of commemorative plaques (as we have in our collection) and even making a camera model made of gold 24k. the M4-2 were launched to the market a thousand of these cameras recorded with the copy of the signature of Oskar, and the date 1879-1979 Some of these exclusive pieces have been sold on the Internet. for a whopping $ 19,999