Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Edward Weston: One Hundred Twenty-Five Photographs" I see on a table upstairs in the photo section of the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan just under Union Square. Its a classy white square book in a slipcase not too big not too small. Was selling for 75 bucks and would be worth it. It's now selling for $20.... a no brainer as far as I go. I'm getting it this week. They said they had more in the back room or I'd not have left with out it a few days ago. After they said there was a back room. Today maybe I'm going there and grabbing it. Gorgeously printed like you'd hope contact prints from 8x10 negs would be. They'd be slight reductions not enlargements And a few images of his I'd not recalled seeing. Like a portrait of his friend Ansel Adams which is reminiscent of Feininger's most famous shot of a guy with a Leica on his face. Only Ansel's camera is his Contax with the second eye finder. And it was done before Feininger's not after. He'd just got the camera that day the Contax people gave it too him making him a Contax guy over a Leica guy. https://www.flickr.com/photos/32357038 at N08/8326852329/ "Good artists copy, great artists steal." Pablo Picasso There actually is a shot he AA got with it you'll see in his books. Of Stieglitz no less. On 10/5/14 8:53 PM, "Kyle Cassidy" <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > Thoughts on photobooks? Specifically books from the past 10 years or so. > > Sent from my iPhone plz excuse the typoss keyb0ard is reaLly small. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/