Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gosh B.D., you are ever so precise with book titles, witness the extremely vague previous reference to Highways to a War. ;-) All kidding aside, I am a great admirer of W. Eugene Smith and he ranks among the greatest to me. Photographically I relate more to Sam Abell and Freeman Patterson or even H. Cartier-Bresson, than Smith, or Sebastiao Salgado, or Capa. Don't ask me how; I wouldn't be able to verbalize it, even though I think much about it. Something about being too close to the reality of human suffering. Something about the pictures you took in Somalia and showed at the Boston LUG meet a few weeks ago. I can pretend to emulate Abell, Patterson or Cartier-Bresson. If I do the others, I wouldn't be able to sleep. - - Phong - -----Original Message----- From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Sunday, November 29, 1998 4:51 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] Best photography books >Yes indeed - there are two terrific Eugene Smith books out there...one is >from Aperture and about half the book is an extended essay/biography...This >was apparently the catalogue that accompanied a massive Smith show that >toured in the mid-late 80s. The second book has far more photos...I believe >the second is called E. Eugene Smith, I'm not sure of the title of the >first...the photos in both are amazing...lots of Pittsburgh stuff, and work >from As Out My Window I Sometimes Gaze...plus the Country Doctor and Midwife >essays....