Tony Rosenwald's Leica Leicaflex SL
In 2017, we received a large consignment from Tony Rosenwald's estate. Tony had quite a life and we have enjoyed learning and sharing some of the stories from it as we have been sharing the cameras that he collected.
Tony he attended college in his late adolescence, but we are unsure as to which school. We know that he attended school with the famous musician, Herbie Hancock (a Chicago native like Tony), so that puts him either at Grinnell or at Roosevelt University. It is also worth noting, while having nothing to do with Tony's education specifically, the Rosenwald Fund, set up by his family, played a large role in the early career of Gordon Parks, who received a fellowship in 1941 from the fund, which allowed him to do his work with the Farm Security Administration.
After college, Tony moved to Mexico City and spent much of the early 1960s working as a professional fashion photographer. He seems to have split time between Mexico and California and by 1967, just in time for the Summer of Love, Tony moved to San Francisco, just a block off Haight and Ashbury.
Tony largely remained in California the rest of his life, eventually moving to Santa Barbara, where he resided until his death at the age of 80. His family inherited all his camera equipment and eventually sought us out to help them find good homes for Tony's many beloved cameras. And beloved they were; it is obvious that these cameras were maintained and exercised; almost every single camera that came in was in solid functional shape.
To read more of the Rosenwald story, please visit the Museum objects for the Canon Demi C and Leica Leicaflex.
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