Today I want to welcome
Tamarkin Camera, one of the largest Leica dealers in the US, as a new sponsor of the LEICA Barnack Berek Blog.
They are mail-order Leica
dealers, with a brick-and-mortar showroom in the River North Gallery district of
downtown Chicago. Part of their showroom is The Rangefinder Gallery, which
showcases works made with the legendary Leica M camera (and other models, too!).
Leaders in Leica expertise and service, they sell more Leica equipment per square foot
than any Leica dealer in the world.
Stan Tamarkin started
collecting, buying, and selling Leica cameras in 1971, and since 1984 Leica has
been their full-time focus. In 1996, Stan Tamarkin started a successful rare
camera auction business, Tamarkin Photographica, and since then has held
biannual auctions in New York, Denver, Tucson, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, and
New Haven.
Stan Tamarkin
From 1995 to 2008 they also
had a showroom in New York City, however they closed that location to be closer
to their families. Since the beginning they have been in the New Haven,
Connecticut area.
Recently, they moved to
Chicago when Stan retired and his eldest son, Dan, took over the family
business. Dan Tamarkin.has been a Leica enthusiast since before he can remember - fascinated by
cameras ever since he was about 3 years old, Stan handed him a camera to play
around with and he was bit by the bug...
Nowadays, Dan shoots mainly
film– yes, film– with a Leica M2 and M7 ".58" cameras, usually with
the 50 Dual-Range Summicron and the 21 Super-Angulon f3,4. Also a fan of the
digital M camera, he shoots digital with any lens he can get his hands on. When
he’s not answering the phones at Tamarkin Camera, he is probably out with his
wife, Laura. Or, planning the next adventure…
Dan Tamarkin
I have known Stan Tamarkin since the 1970s, and I don't hesitate to vouch for the integrity of Tamarkin Camera.
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