Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan - I don't know if i started the thread or just chimed in but it IS a nice little read. The perfect vacation book. It captures a mood that is historical. My paperback version doesn't do justice to Capa's photos but is still interesting. Ernie Nitka On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 06:13 PM, Nathan Wajsman (private) wrote: > Some time ago someone here recommended the above book, and I picked it > up at Foyles in London a couple of month ago. This evening I finished > reading it and can heartily recommend it to all lovers of good writing > and good photography. For those who are not familiar with it, the book > is an account of a trip Steinbeck and Capa made to the Soviet Union in > the summer of 1947. Their purpose was simply to see how ordinary > Russian lived, with little or no political overtones (insofar as that > is possible). They spent a couple of months in Moscow, Kiev, Georgia. > While Capa's photographs are of variable quality, not helped by > paperback reproduction, the combination of the pictures with > Steinbeck's wonderful writing is simply fantastic. At the end of the > day it is clear that what they saw was highly arranged, and Steinbeck > is clearly aware of that, but nonetheless the book is extremely > enjoyable. > > Nathan > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > > e-mail: nathanw@bluewin.ch > mobile: +41 78 732 1430 > > Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2003.htm > General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html