Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry, David, are you asking the wrong guy! I couldn't care less what cameras the photos were shot with. B. D. David Burdoin wrote: > > Hello BD, > > Yes, I am interested. I have begun a small collection of books of > photographs taken with Leica cameras. So I should like to know if all of > these books fall into that category. > > Many thanks, > David Burdoin > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 11:51 AM > Subject: [Leica] Books > > > For anyone who's interested, there are several terrific new books from > > Phaidon - > > > > Robert Capa - The Definitive Collection - 937! photos... > > I've only had a chance to glance through this, and the others I mention > > here, but this Capa collection makes me rethink Capa - in a positive way > > > > Elliott Erwitt Snaps - > > More than 500 images, half of which haven't been published > > previously...If you think of Erwitt as simply someone who took funny > > photos of dogs and not funny photos of MM, definitely take a look at > > this one... > > > > Vietnam, Inc. - The Philip Jones Griffiths classic reissued, with a > > forward by Noam Chomsky - okay, so skip the forward if you're not a > > Chomsky fan - :-) - and ignore the BS about how this book is what turned > > around public opinion on the Vietnam War - (Hello? Can you say 'nightly > > news?' Can you say 'Life Magazine?' Can you say 'body bags?') A classic > > none the less... > > > > There are also a number of new titles in the Phaidon 55 series.... > > > > And, not from Phaidon - there is a new W. Eugene Smith book out - > > Paradise Street - a collection of the 200-and-some photos - our of > > 17,000 - which he considered the core of his Pittsburgh project. > > > > B. D. > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html