[Leica] used photo books.

[s.jessurun95 at chello.nl (animal)]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 4:12 PM
Subject: [Leica] used photo books.


> Hi folks,
> This isn't off topic because it's about used photography books. You know
> from yesteryear when the world was all film and Buck Rogers was a space
> cowboy.
>
> I'm a consummate used book store miner, always digging in them searching
for
> photography book nuggets, like from the 1900's, the earlier the better.
Each
> find reveals so much of where we came from as photographers, how our
camera
> gear, particularly Leica's, were used and what those photographers saw and
> captured compared to what we see and capture today.
>
> Two wonderful finds yesterday, "U.S. CAMERA ANNUAL 1939." and "THE GERMAN
> PHOTOGRAPHIC ANNUAL1956"
>
> "U.S. CAMERA ANNUAL 1939."
> A $20.00 purchase of a million dollar look at the photography of 1939 as
> selected by Edward Steichen. A small portfolio of his work at the
beginning
> is beautifully re-produced with a self portrait dated 1898 followed by b&w
> portraits of his famous folks and other subjects.
>
> Today if it still existed it would be a magazine on the rack in a shop.
1939
> it's a wire spiral bound hard cover book with beautifully reproduced
> photographs fit to frame. Amazing quality production, aaaaaaaahhhh the
days
> of real books! :-) All in all I can only say, if you're a book miner like
> me, keep a sharp eye for this as it'll be a treasure in your personal
> library.
>
> "THE GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHIC ANNUAL1956"
> Another $20.00 nugget and the first edition printed in English. A single
> photograph to a page illustrating 120 pages of very interesting pictures
of
> which 33 were shot with Leica's!
>
> The book is assembled in two parts, the descriptive section containing a
> tiny bio of each photographer and why, what he used and how he shot the
> picture, actually very interesting copy.
>
> The second half a clean photo book of un-interrupted pictures,
predominately
> b&w with 8 colour plates. Obviously you can see where colour ranked! ;-)
>
> ( I thought it fit appropriately with my well used, "Real Photographers
> shoot B&W, eat sushi and drink scotch!")  ;-)
>
> just weekend chatter.
>
> ted
>
Hmm .It,s hard to find a better town for sushi then Vancouver i think.
simon j