Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Next stop Eagleton ;-) - -- Rob http://www.robertappleby.com Mobile: (+39) 348 336 7990 Home: (+39) 059 303436 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Satterfield" <cwsat@istate.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Cartier-Bresson exhibition > I just finished reading Descartes and his treatise on " I think, > therefore I am". Another profound reality check for me. Gave me > additional insight into who I am and where I am going. > > Stuart Phillips wrote: > > >I've just finished Ruskin's "Modern Painters", (the abridged edition) which > >is an awe-inspiring book, but strangely comforting when you get into it. > >It's worth it just for Ruskin's own illustrations. James Elkins' "How to Use > >Your Eyes" provides some elegant and thought-provoking essays on visual > >topics from grass, the Earth's shadow and perspective to the night. There > >wasn't one topic where I didn't learn something that I didn't find amazing. > >It isn't til you tryudied to follow up his sources that you find how far he > >has studied to put these insights together. > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "David Place" <dlpimages@earthlink.net> > >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > >Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:38 AM > >Subject: Re: [Leica] Cartier-Bresson exhibition > > > > > >>>I've just finished reading "Limelight" by Helen Gee, a memoir of the > >>> > >days > > > >>All: > >> > >>that is a great book ... read it a year or two ago ... doe anyone have any > >>suggested reading ? ... not necessarily camera tech stuff ... I for one > >> > >have > > > >>been reading too much fiction lately and am running out of good stuff ... > >>would like more visual related books like "Limelight" ... just ordered > >> > >some > > > >>'creative' books ... "The Origins of Creativity" & "Red Dogs and Pink > >> > >Skies: > > > >>Paul Gauguin on Painting and Music" ... ... ... anyone have any > >> > >suggestions > > > >>? > >> > >>dplace > >>DLPimages > >> > >>-- > >>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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html