Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a copy of Men of the Saddle, Ted. The pics are great, the reproduction not as good as the later medicine books. But it is certainly one of the important books in my large collection of photo books. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On May 11, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Ted Grant wrote: > A history lesson real time on being published and or getting > published! > > > > My first book happened long before what we can do these days. So I > thought you might like to know the realities of then, now and how! > > > > A couple of friends, a husband & wife photographer team who had > several books published previously happened to see an A/V production > of mine in Ottawa using 16 projectors at the same time on ?cowboy > life!? All Kodachrome colour slides. > > Later unbeknownst to me, they told their publisher in Toronto about > the images and the potential for a book. Publisher phoned and asked > me to fly to Toronto at their expense for a meeting and would I > bring a selection of mages for the editorial staff to have a look. > > > > We had the meeting, they looked at the images, they decided to > ?publish a book!? It was as simple as that! ?Men of the Saddle, > Working Cowboys of Canada.? I believe it?s on used book internet > sites and still found, maybe tattered and rumpled, but it?s still a > neat book. Colour and black & white images. I believe some on the > list have copies? >