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Subject: [Leica] OT: A little history
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Jan 26 11:18:51 2005

IMHO, Helmut Newton's Sumo book was an example of someone in publishing
watching too much Seinfeld, and finding a way to turn Kramer's coffee
table book into a reality. How could anyone possibly look at that book -
without standing on a chair with the book on the floor?

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: A little history



> What publication runs 13x19s? The problem with any image that big that

> isn't on the wall is that you can't look at it from the proper viewing

> distance. That's one of my complaints - OT - about Nachtwey's magnum 
> opus, Inferno. It's truly amazing work, but many of the images are too

> damn big to be looked at as one normally looks at a book. That may 
> have been his idea, but I don't know that it really works.

Thanks i allways assumed it was my shortcomings that made me believe
helmut 
Newtons big sumo book to be to big for comfort.
simon jessurun
amsterdam 

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