Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 12/27/05, e. nitka <enitka1@comcast.net> wrote: > Steve - I agree that unless you have some burning desire to know all > the minutae of the Leica System one is best recommended to buy > photography books regardless of the camera used to take those > pictures. I too have wound up with a few gift certificates that need spending and thought I'd look to the LUG for advice. I've got criticism and monographs that I haven't explored to their fullest, so I'm curious what are the stand-outs in the vein of Magnum Stories - essays and writings by photographers on their process and work - or great bios/memoirs? Magnum Stories looks like the clear winner, though it's on backorder with Amazon and unwieldly to read (kinda like Eugene Richards' Fat Baby - not something I can take in by bag to read before class). The only two I have picked out are the Kershaw biography of Robert Capa and the slim 'history of Magnum' volume. Is the Aussoline bio of HCB good? -- MP wooderson@gmail.com