[Leica] "INDIGNATS" The BOOK! ARRIVED!

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

I can only endorse what Dr Ted has said. I just got mine direct from
Professor Lluis!
Some guy called Grant wrote the introduction.

A very fine work and Blurb has made a great job of the BW reproduction too.

Cheers
Geoff

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On 16 July 2011 15:36, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> INDIGNATS........ the book arrived today!   WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> May I suggest if you consider yourself a photographer who enjoys
> interesting photography shot by others........... BUY THIS BOOK WITHOUT
> QUESTION!
>
> Some of you know I have a personal library of many hundreds of photography
> related books, a hobby of mine. I think the oldest dating back to 1910,
> title " The Romance of Modern Photography."  Hardly call it "modern by
> today's standards." Extremely interesting! But that isn't what this post is
> about!
>
> Lluis Ripoll's book "INDIGNATS" held my attention today while I went front
> to back again and again at least 6 or 7 times!  Maybe 8, but it's so well
> assembled, the photography as street photography is classic of the best 
> with
> the greats! Yes you will see some from the LUG gallery, but who cares. As
> this is as spell binding as a collection as you turn page after page. 
> Street
> photography as good as it gets.
>
> You're not buying a book made up of images by Cartier Bresson that you've
> seen in a previous dozen books or more. We've seen them so often during the
> past 70 or more years we've memorized his work, we've seen it so often. 
> Damn
> near "boring!!!!" Jeeeeeeshhhh don't get up set as I've been looking at his
> photography since 1949! Lluis is all brand new! :-) Actually the new kid on
> the block!
>
> INDIGNATS? A beautifully printed quality of B&W as B&W should look! I'd
>  say the best of the BLURB  publications I've seen. That's the technical
> stuff. It's the photography, page after page of split second reactions
> capturing life's passing moments. Quite amazing indeed.
>
> So ladies and gentlemen if you like photography books, after all why
> wouldn't you, we are photographers after all. Get a copy of Lluis's
> "INDIGNATS" as it's one of those special photo books;
> A: you can't put it down!
> B: You'll look through it many times, amazed each time. And he's one of our
> Crew! Thank you all.
>
> Cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
>
>
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