Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/03

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Subject: [Leica] customer review, Steve Barbour's book
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu Apr 3 06:31:48 2008
References: <C41A56EE.2A410%pkolodny@fibertel.com.ar> <40491D40-097D-41B9-8426-FAD9E2B1E679@cox.net>

I am just waiting for the Rollei Group book to be ready so that I can order
2 or 3 together. The shipping to India is also excessive...
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote:

>
> On Apr 3, 2008, at 5:42 AM, Pablo Kolodny wrote:
>
> > Being all that I heard here about Steve's and others books too only
> > thing I
> > have to comment is that shipping to Argentina is just prohibitive.
> > Maybe I'd have to make them ship to a friend of mine somewhere else and
> > see
> > what/when/how to forward those good books to me
> >
>
> and I will look into this here...
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>  or just wait until I can
> > pick them up. Some day.
> >
> > Pablo
> >
> >
> > hoppyman@bigpond.net.au wrote:
> >
> >  Fellow LUGgers, I've just received my copy of "I never wanted to be
> > > famous"
> > > by Steve Barbour. I expected the mood of the pictures to be bleak
> > > given the
> > > emotional subject matter. Instead I found them to be sensitive and
> > > even
> > > uplifting photographs. I thought that the presentation was quite
> > > stark,
> > > being all black pages and this tended to give me an impression that
> > > some
> > > photos would benefit from a lighter scheme. However, that is entirely
> > > personal taste. The reproduction of the (all black and white) photos
> > > is very
> > > good and commendably neutral. My copy came from Switzerland. I think
> > > that
> > > Steve has produced a very worthwhile book, filled with sensitive and
> > > high
> > > quality photographs. His care and devotion to these children is very
> > > apparent.
> > >
> > > I recommend this one highly for everyone's bookshelf.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Geoff
> > >
> > > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
> > >
> > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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In reply to: Message from pkolodny at fibertel.com.ar (Pablo Kolodny) ([Leica] customer review, Steve Barbour's book)
Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] customer review, Steve Barbour's book)