[Leica] " I NEVER WANTED TO BE FAMOUS."... the book!

[nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)]

I just received my copy today, and like Ted, I found it impossible to  
put down even though I was at the office...

Well done, Steve!

And aside from the slight imperfection in the binding (I got the  
hardcover), the quality of the printing is impeccable.

Nathan

On 30-mrt-2008, at 21:46, Ted Grant wrote:

> "I never wanted to be famous."
>
> Steve's hard cover book.
>
> Yep we've seen some of the photos one frame at a time and generally  
> held in
> awe at what Dr. Steve Barbour captured under extremely emotional  
> times.
>
> However the book Dr. Barbour created is absolutely spell binding!
>
> You can't do the quick time glance and, "I'll come back later when  
> I have
> more time." It doesn't wash, nor work, you put the world at bay  
> instead and
> let it wait! This incredible heart clutching collection of  
> photographs, so
> well taken and assembled, each page supports the next carrying an  
> extremely
> emotional heart warming image supporting the next.
>
> Not in pain or ill feelings, but in awe of kids in almost every  
> state of
> emotion and recovery they can be.
>
> As tear jerking as some can be, these little kids rise above our adult
> "sorrowful feelings" we have thinking of children in hospital. One
> photograph can evoke from the hardest nosed toughie amongst us a  
> feeling of
> , "oh the poor little guy or girl!" And yet in each there's a  
> message of
> hope and survival that kids have we don't necessarily see when the  
> child is
> our own.
>
> In fact a few of these pictures illustrate children at what appears  
> their
> worse, when in reality they are at their fighting best! We see some as
> pretty tough looking cookies on one page and great big smiling  
> faces the
> next!
>
> I believe every mother, father and grand parent should have this  
> book as a
> comfort book when they're world feels like it's a disaster when one  
> of their
> own is ill. In reality the book can evoke wonderful feelings of  
> hope and
> understanding that there is a Great Spirit who pulls these little  
> folks
> through the worst hell we adults can fear.
>
> If you don't have a copy, you can't order it fast enough! As it's  
> just a
> plain good old fashion spell binding feel good book page after page!
>
> Well done mon ami Steve, Good on you, it's a beauty!
>
> ted
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Nathan Wajsman
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