Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Saturday, Saturday, November 14, 1998, Donal Philby wrote: > Another good photojournalism and war novel is by Phillip Caputo (brother > of Caputo that works for Nat. Geo?) who wrote A Rumor of War and The > Horn of Africa, but I can't remember the title. As direct and > crystaline as Hemingway, yet as poigant as Summerset Maughn. The book by Caputo about a war photog is DelCorso's Gallery. One of, if not the best, books about how a news photog works that I have read. And the main character in the book uses a Leica with a Summarit and a Nikon. Caputo won the Pulitzer for a story written for the Chicago Tribune on the Mafia after doing time in Nam as a Marine. He was a reporter for the Trib for many years, covered the 6 days war, fall of Siagon, held hostage by the looney tunes (Caputo's slang for the Mojahadeen(SP)) in Beruit (the pulitzer was awarded him while he was their hostage and this helped him get freed). So he has been there and knows the what it takes to play the game. I bought a copy of Del Corso's Gallery about 5 years ago in Atlanta from an Oxford book seller. It was out of print then, but they had some in storage. Best regards, Harrison McClary http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto preview my book: http://www.volmania.com mailto:hmcclary@earthlink.net Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film.