Camera
Rollei
Rolleiflex (medium format)
Twin-lens reflex camera system produced by Franke & Heidecke in Germany, shooting 6x6cm frames on 120 roll film. Known for its waist-level viewfinder, quiet leaf shutter, and Zeiss or Schneider taking lenses. Various models were produced from 1929 through the 2000s.
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Switched from Nikon to Rolleiflex TLR in late 1950s; square format defined her mature work
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Purchased first Rolleiflex in 1952; used multiple models (3.5T, 3.5F, 2.8C, Automat) throughout career
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Purchased first Rolleiflex in 1938; used for street, fashion, nudes, and ethnographic work
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Used Rolleiflex for nearly all fashion and portrait work from 1940s through late 1960s
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Used Rolleiflex TLR; called it "probably my best camera for work"
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"Equipped with his Rolleiflex" he "photographed, for the Army Press Service, the soldiers of the French Expeditionary Corps" in Indochina (1951-1954)
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