Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/06

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Subject: [Leica] Family of Man
From: geneduprey2015 at gmail.com (Gene Duprey)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 10:58:57 -0600
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I have a soft cover copy of Family of Man, and also a copy of Family of Man
2.  I also joined the LUG during the last 3 years of the project, and am
happy to say I have 2 photos in the book, which contains superb photography.

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That is a very nice book that Alastair curated. I joined the LUG while
> the project was in its final stages, too late to submit anything. I
> have a copy of the book, though.
>
> The lack of commercial interest is because it is always easier and
> cheaper to produce something, but far more difficult and expensive to
> market it effectively. We cannot turn up our nose at the game we are
> required to play for our output to succeed within industries like
> publishing and art, and in the same breath bemoan the fact that no one
> notices our work. The world just does not work that way.
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 6:01 PM, lluisripollphotography
> <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Gerry,
> >
> > Thank you for the information I?ve forwarded it to Alastair Firkin, in
> the 2005 Alastair has promoted among the LUG and others a submission of
> pictures to commemorate the 50th of the Family of Man, they was about more
> than 10.000 pictures submitted and 500 was selected to be included in a
> wonderful book ?Family of Man 2? (I was honored including some of mine
> too), I have both books too, the original and the 2. Maybe if you have some
> contacts with The Guardian you can forward them this information, it is as
> well a great book and it is shame that nobody was interested in a
> commercial edition, actually is edited by Blurb:
> >
> > <http://www.blurb.com/books/259512-the-family-of-man-2-project <
> http://www.blurb.com/books/259512-the-family-of-man-2-project>>
> >
> > Cheers
> > Lluis
> >
> >
> >
> >> El 06/11/2015, a les 12:59, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> va
> escriure:
> >>
> >> According to this article (with photos) Steichens? ?Family of Man? is
> being republished by MoMA. I am lucky enough to have an original copy on
> the bookshelf so won?t be buying it:
> >>
> >> http://gu.com/p/4ex89/sbl <http://gu.com/p/4ex89/sbl>
> >>
> >> Gerry
> >>
> >>
> >> Gerry Walden LRPS
> >> www.gwpics.com <http://www.gwpics.com/>
> >> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
> >> +44 (0)797 287 7932
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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