When Leica says it's celebrating its centenary with something monumental, they're not messing about. Standing outside the Ernst Leitz Museum in Wetzlar, Germany is an eight-ton marble sculpture of a Leica M11 Monochrom, carved from white Carrara marble by Dutch artist Casper Braat.
That might seem… well, a bit eccentric to say the least. But it's entirely on-brand for a company that's spent a century convincing photographers that cameras can be not just functional but objects of beauty in their own right.
