Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dave Myers wrote: > > Hello... > > I just got my first issue of DoubleTake magazine, a quarterly magazine > of photography and literature. > > You might know about it. > > There are a couple of pieces that might be of interest to some of you. > First, an article about W. Eugene Smith's Pittsbugh project -- the one > he undertook in 1955 after he left Life magazine. There are some never > before published images and a picture of Smith holding what looks like > an early Leica with a 90mm f4(?). The photographs are exceptional. > > Also, an essay by Barry Lopez entitled "Learning to See," an > autobiographical piece about how he dropped photography to devote all of > his energies to writing. > > The magazine is beautiful. > Funny, I just dropped my subscription because I mostly found the photographs so insipid that I never got around to the text. The professed to do "documentary," but really just did contrived stuff. Really pedestrian. I felt I had wasted my money. But the two articles have interest. I love Barry Lopez' writing. He is perhaps the most intimate nature writer I have every read, save Loren Eisely. Might have to cop a read at the newsstand. donal - -- Donal Philby San Diego http://www.donalphilby.com