Re: [Leica] Ted Grant's book

[tedgrant@islandnet.com (Ted Grant)]

Alfred Breull wrote:

>Yesterday, I received Ted Grant's 220 page 14 1/2" x 14 1/2" book
>"This is Our Work - The Legacy of Sir William Osler", ISBN
>0-9698568-0-6, announced at <http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant>.
>
>The book shows physicians, nurses, scenes in a hospital, but most
>of all - it shows humanity, tolerance and patience, translated into
>extraordinary and sensible b/w Leica pictures.
>
>Ted Grant's pictures are truly remarkable, because they are more
>than images of scenes - the pictures make you feel the physician's,
>the nurse's gentle caring for the patient, the concentration on his/
>her suffer, not looking for the rest of the world. You feel the relief
>and happiness at a success, you feel the patient's faith, but you also
>feel the tired assistant's 60, 80 working hours week.
>
>The pictures are no loud pictures, but they are spectacular, of the
>quiet type. These pictures make you wish, that you would be exactly
>in that hospital, where Ted Grant's pictures are taken, and at/in
>the hands of those people, when you get ill.
>
>'Decisive moments' - maybe. But, Ted Grant's pictures show more,
>much more, than that very moment. These are pictures of hope.
>
>Thank you, Ted.
>
>Alf
>(working in a hospital since 20+ years)


Alf,

 There have been many fine comments made about the photography in the book
word and written:

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"This new book of Ted Grant's is inspiring - it doesn't sit on the shelf
next to my other photography books by Eisenstaedt, Eugene Smith, Robert
Capa and David Douglas Duncan - where it deserves a place of honour.
Instead, I leave it out in prominent view where I see it every morning.
Ted's years of dedication in recording the various details in the lives of
medical professionals and the hours of perfecting every black and white
print that went into this book serves as my daily motivation to emulate
this truly professional photographer."

                Denis Paquin, Bureau Chief, The Associated Press, Tokyo

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But I feel you have given the work a very special meaning as you see it
from two perspectives, medical view and photographic approach.

Knowing that it was shot with Leica M & R cameras and a variation of lenses
gives it a "technical side" many medical folks wouldn't appreciate, where
photographers do. Because it's primarily a "photo book" that I wrote the
"Photographers Supplement" explaining the many aspects of motivation and
technical information accompanying each copy.

I thank you very much, as your comments made the day and reinforced my
feelings, that I was on the right track during this personal project of ten
years.

thanks again,


Ted Grant
This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler.
http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant