Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Here are my three choices for "essential books": #1: Jim Lager's three books on Leica bodies, lenses, and accesories. Brilliant histories and photos taken with R Bellows & 100 mm lens as well as 60 mm f2.8 macro Elmarit lens. It's truly astonishing how many devices Leica has produced, and these books display them brilliantly!!! #2: My First Ten Years With the Leica by Dr. Paul Wolfe. Absolutely stunning compositions and exposures of long-gone subject material due to the passage of multiple decades. Truly a master!! #3: The Eye of Eisenstaedt-The Way A Great Photographer Sees (published in 1969 and out of print). My great inspiration as a teenager with my father's M3 and M2. Superb pictorial autobiography, starting before someone handed him a Leica in 1930 and ending in the 60s. Full of Leica photos and descriptions of people and history he encountered. Another true master! Terry