[Leica] SPECIAL: WOMEN IN MEDICINE AUTOGRAPHED BOOK COPIES

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

Anyone interested in B&W photography should get this. It's a bargain!




>Women in Medicine. A Celebration of their Work.
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>I have just acquired the remaining copies of 
>this award-winning book illustrating the daily 
>lives of women in medicine. It was created on 
>location in hospitals throughout North America 
>by two photojournalists using Leica cameras and 
>b&w film.
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>One of the most unique aspects? . "The Art of 
>Observation illustrated by these two 
>photographers covering the same subject in 
>various locations and not being able to tell 
>which photographer took which photograph! A 
>tribute to their equally matched abilities as 
>photojournalists."
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>READER COMMMENT:
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>Ted Grant, one of Canada's best kept secret, and 
>his prot?g? Sandy Carter break no ground in 
>Women In Medicine. A Celebration of Their Work. 
>There is nothing new here. Instead, they present 
>us with a work of classic documentary 
>photography; two outstanding photographers 
>venturing forth into a world new to most of us, 
>returning with a collection of photographic 
>moments that together show us what it is like to 
>be a woman in the male dominated world of 
>medicine.
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>I say Ted Grant is a Canada's best kept secret 
>because he is little known outside his own 
>country. But there he is a true star in the 
>field of photojournalism. For more than 60 years 
>Grant has been shooting for major Canadian 
>newspapers; his work of 280,000 images is in the 
>permanent collection of the Canadian national 
>archives, and a few years back, he and Karsh of 
>Ottawa, perhaps the best known classic portrait 
>photographer of the past 50 years, received the 
>same life time achievement award.
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>Women In Medicine. A Celebration of Their Work, 
>will remind you of nothing so much as the LIFE 
>Magazine work of W. Eugene Smith, inventor of 
>the magazine photo essay. Look at the photos of 
>these women in scrubs at the end of an endless 
>shift, and you can't help think of Smith's 
>classic essay, "Country Doctor." What makes 
>Grant and Carter's work all the more impressive, 
>is that unlike Smith, they neither set up any 
>shots, nor did they use any flash or other 
>supplementary lighting. Grant makes no bones 
>about distaining the use of what he calls 
>"twinkie" lights - flash. When the light 
>disappears he just pulls out the Noctilux for 
>one of his Leica M7s, and pushes his Tri-X a 
>stop further.
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>While this is a book that will appeal to any 
>woman in medicine, be she a physician, a nurse, 
>a nurse midwife, or a tech of any type, and 
>while it is also a book that demands a place on 
>the bookshelf of anyone who loves a woman in 
>medicine, it is first of all a book for anyone 
>who loves classic, black and white, available 
>light
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>documentary photography.
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>The special price for the autographed copies 
>includes a six-page "Photographer's Supplement" 
>explaining many of the photographic techniques 
>and the lighting motivations of the photographs. 
>It also includes an open invitation to contact 
>the photographers with any questions about their 
>work.
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>Ted Grant tedgrant at shaw.ca       Sandy Carter  sc-photo at comcast.net
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>COST $40.00 plus shipping $10.00 please order via e-mail Thank you.
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       Henning J. Wulff
  Wulff Photography & Design
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