Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I gotta see this book! The last "photo" book I saw was the ghastly Madonna book that my daughter brought home years ago. Sanely, she had borrowed it, rather than actually spend her hard earned money for it! Too many of these 'coffe table' books are so vapid and banal that I had long ago given up even looking through the offerings at B&N and Borders! This sounds like one that might deserve space on the shelf with Ted's! Dan (seriously, for the moment!) Post - ----- Original Message ----- From: peter stamos <pjstamos@hotmail.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 8:27 AM Subject: [Leica] Natchwey > This is indeed when the pain of being replaces the boredom of living: > "Inferno" should be required reading for afficionados of corporate power and > those who have made their peace with capitalism, although I'm tempted to > conclude that it will have scant effect on such men and women. Optimism of > the spirit, pessimism of the intellect. Still, the book sort of puts a > damper on the profligate, self-referential dissemination of meaningless, > stupid, autobiographical and just plain bad photographs, doesn't it? Long > ago, a saxophone player told a neighbor of mine, a trumpeter, that when he > picked up his instrument he was unable to stop playing. The right on > response: "Take the fucking horn outta your mouth!" > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com >