Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi BD, The edition I have is a Penguin Classics reprint from 2000, so I believe it is in print. I bought it in London a couple of months ago, right off the shelf at Foyles, one of the major bookstores. ISBN is 0-14-118633-X. I forgot to mention in my original post that some of the most interesting stuff in the book is Steinbeck's description of Capa and vice versa--yes, Capa wrote on, albeit brief, chapter. Cheers, Nathan bdcolen wrote: > Hi, Nathan - Is the book still in print? I read about it recently in a > relatively new biography of Capa and it piqued my interest. Who's the > publisher, if it is still available? > > Thanks > > B. D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Nathan > Wajsman (private) > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 6:13 PM > To: LUG > Subject: [Leica] "A Russian Journal" by Steinbeck and Capa > > > 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