Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Phaidon 55s
From: Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 12:04:47 -0700

>I've just been browsing through the photography section of a local bookshop.
>A new range of small, but well printed, books of photography have appeared.
>They are called '55s' because they each feature 55 pictures with extended
>captions.
>
>There are 20 titles in the first bunch:
>[snip, but see below]


I just picked up two of these books in S.F. the other day. They are great,
pocketable books at a fantastic price. Decent reproductions, fine
commentary. All in all, a promising new series of photography books.

And thanks for posting the list of photographers - I asked for such a list
at the bookstore of the Friends of Photography, but they had none. Now I
know what to look for.

Guy


>Eugene Atget
>Mathew Brady
>Wynn Bullock
>Julia Margaret Cameron
>Joan Fontcuberta
>David Goldblatt
>Nan Goldin
>Graciela Iturbide
>Andre Kertesz
>Dorothea Lange
>Mary Ellen Mark
>Joel Meyerowitz
>Boris Mikhailov
>Lisette Model
>Laszlo Moholy-Nage
>Eadweard Muybridge
>Eugene Richards
>W Eugene Smith
>Shomei Tomatsu
>Joel-Peter Witkin
>
>There seems to be a good proportion of women, and 15% are guys called
>Eugene.
>Be careful with that axe Eugene.
>
>A lot more are promised.
>23.74% will be women called Eugenie.
>Careless Eugene!
>
>Each costs UKP 4.95, USD 7.95, CND 11.95 etc.
>
>I am not at all connected with the publishers or any bookshop - I just think
>that this seems like a worthy attempt to publish interesting stuff to a wide
>readership.
>
>Regards,
>Malcolm
>
>Non-party-political broadcast on behalf of A Worker's Collective, Many of
>Whom Have Anarchist Leanings (for viewers in the UK, Bologna and Spitzbergen
>only)
>Just don't vote, OK?