RE: [Leica] Has anyone read Shutterbabe yet?

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

I'm waiting to read it, looks interesting, but check out a negative review -
some good points, but maybe some sour grapes too? She did have a pretty
short photojournalism/journalism career:

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/01/29/shutterbabe/index.html


Tim A



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of David
> Freedman
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:40 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Has anyone read Shutterbabe yet?
>
>
> Very highly recommended! I read it in two sittings on two
> consecutive days.
> Couldn't put it down. An alien lifestyle to me but absolutely riveting (at
> least until she starts "nesting" toward the end). It's much more of a
> personal odyssey than a book on photojournalism. It appears that
> being a PJ
> is often inviting a life of perpetual danger, squalor and poverty. To keep
> on-topic, she eventually sells her Nikons but, as she says, "never the
> Leicas".
>
> Dave F.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Zeissler, Mitch <mzeissle@gcipoa.gannett.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 9:29 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Has anyone read Shutterbabe yet?
>
>
> > Just saw the review in USA TODAY this morning, and it features
> what looks
> > like an M6 on the cover, with an M6 mentioned in the review text.  The
> first
> > chapter is available at the following link:
> >
> >
> http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/books/2001-01-30-shutterbabe-ch
apter.htm
>
> /Mitch Zeissler
>