Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/07

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Subject: Re[4]: [Leica] Books
From: Bob Walkden <bob@web-options.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:48:05 +0000
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Hi,

this page includes a few photos by James Ravilious:

http://www.cannsdownpress.co.uk/darkroom.htm

This one's particularly good fun:

http://www.cannsdownpress.co.uk/d17.htm

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 Bob  

mailto:bob@web-options.com

Wednesday, November 07, 2001, 1:10:07 PM, you wrote:

> Bob, thanks for the book reference, one I must get.

> I have a book of James Ravilious's photographs. "A corner of England"
> North Devon landscapes and people. (Reprint 1996, Devon Books,
> ISBN 0-86114-897-5). Again the pictures were taken with older lenses and
> are very beautiful showing a way of life that is fast disappearing. Most are
> black and white with a few in colour. Two of my favourites are a flock of geese
> on the brow of a hill and an approching storm. Another book is "Down Devon's
> deep lanes" (Beacham, P. Ravilious, J. ISBN: 1855227436, Devon Books).

> A Google www.google.com search for "James Ravilious" gives many
> references to publications where James's photographs of country life and
> ways have been used for illustrations.

> Bob Parsons bobp@dodo.demon.co.uk

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Walkden" <bob@web-options.com>
> <snip>> 
>> The pictures in James Ravilious' book "An English Eye" (1998, ISBN
>> 1-85522-628-6) were taken almost exclusively with a Leica M3 and older
>> lenses. The book includes a longish section (5 pages) on his tools and
>> techniques, and demonstrate how using the M3 + VIOOH or Imarect, with
>> uncoated Elmars and Hektors, in conjunction with the Zone System, help
>> him to get precisely the effects he wants. His prints are very even and
>> smooth in tone, very well suited to his subject, the Devon countryside
>> and how people live there. It's a very, very beautiful book, little
>> known.
>> ---
>>  Bob   
>> mailto:bob@web-options.com


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In reply to: Message from "Griffith, Lucian" <lgriffiths@ue.com.au> (Re: [Leica] Books)
Message from Bob Walkden <bob@web-options.com> (Re[2]: [Leica] Books)
Message from "Bob Parsons" <bobp@ntlworld.com> (Re: Re[2]: [Leica] Books)