Post by bonanos on Jun 12, 2017 9:15:12 GMT -5
Hello--I'm a researcher in New York, at work on a book about the photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee. I am hoping the Soviet-camera specialists here can help clarify some information I have. (I have Googled it every which way already, and I have come up empty.)
In the fall of 1963, Weegee was on a trip to London when he met with representatives of T.O.E., the company that imported Zenit cameras to the UK. They invited him to visit Moscow and Leningrad to tour the company's facilities, and he went. He makes reference in his letters to a woman he calls "Auntie," who, he says, had secured the import-export deal with KMZ. Auntie's partner, he said, was named Rafael, and they (Auntie and Rafael) had an employee who ran the service department named Charles Saunders.
Does anyone here know who these folks are? Extremely grateful for any clues or other leads I can chase.
