100 years of Leica’s compact camera: The click that revolutionized photography

100 years of Leica’s compact camera: The click that revolutionized photography

Among the historic photos of the 20th century, one finds Robert Capa’s dying Republican soldier of the Spanish Civil War, Cartier-Bresson’s man leaping over a puddle, the passionate Times Square kiss between a sailor and a young woman in celebration of the end of the Second World War, the little girl in Vietnam fleeing with her skin covered in napalm burns, and Alberto Korda’s portrait of Che Guevara. What they all have in common is that they we…