[Leica] A Photographers Place, was: re Gene Smith - Shadow & Substance

["Stewart, Alistair" <AStewart@gigaweb.com>]

Mitch,

Not so fast, there.

During my recent booksearch, in which many LUGers helped, I called the
Photographers Place. I have to say that your experience looks like customer
service excellence exemplified, compared to mine.

Lugers, vote with your wallets.

Alistair

- -----Original Message-----
From: Mitch Alland [mailto:malland@mac.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 4:59 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Gene Smith - Shadow & Substance


"Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com> wrote:

>Photographers Place # is 212 431-9358 (fx: 941-7920). BTW, don't expect
>friendly Amazon service... they are often very New York, but 
>have a great selection.

Actually they're a bunch of twits and quite unpleasant. My last experience
- --  and I mean LAST -- was that they made a big fuss when my 85-year old
father, who was with me asked whether they had a chair for him to sit down.
Also, they made a big fuss (sarcastic remarks, etc.) when I bought a book
and wanted to return it the next day. This is not a New York phenomenon;
just this store which I won't visit again.

The book was the great, big door-stooper by Jean-Loup Sieff. I had bought it
quickly, without looking at it carefully, because they wouldn't get my
father a chair. That evening, when I looked at the book, I found the
photographs boring and contrived and the text inanane and offfensive. For
example, Sieff writes, "some women's bums are only good for shitting."

BTW, when in New York, make sure to visit the Museaum of Modern Art
bookstore; it has a great collection of photographic books.

- --Mitch