Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] "A Russian Journal" by Steinbeck and Capa
From: Ernest Nitka <enitka@twcny.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 12:17:22 -0400

BD here's the Amazon link

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0141180196/ 
qid=1053706595/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-4016406-1148860?v=glance&s=books

ernie
On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 10:14 AM, bdcolen wrote:

> Hi, Nathan - Is the book still in print? I read about it recently in a
> relatively new biography of Capa and it piqued my interest. Who's the
> publisher, if it is still available?
>
> Thanks
>
> B. D.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Nathan
> Wajsman (private)
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 6:13 PM
> To: LUG
> Subject: [Leica] "A Russian Journal" by Steinbeck and Capa
>
>
> Some time ago someone here recommended the above book, and I picked it
> up at Foyles in London a couple of month ago. This evening I finished
> reading it and can heartily recommend it to all lovers of good writing
> and good photography. For those who are not familiar with it, the book
> is an account of a trip Steinbeck and Capa made to the Soviet Union in
> the summer of 1947. Their purpose was simply to see how ordinary  
> Russian
>
> lived, with little or no political overtones (insofar as that is
> possible). They spent a couple of months in Moscow, Kiev, Georgia.  
> While
>
> Capa's photographs are of variable quality, not helped by paperback
> reproduction, the combination of the pictures with Steinbeck's  
> wonderful
>
> writing is simply fantastic. At the end of the day it is clear that  
> what
>
> they saw was highly arranged, and Steinbeck is clearly aware of that,
> but nonetheless the book is extremely enjoyable.
>
> Nathan
>
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>
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