Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]First, I wonder how you know where he is at the moment in relation to his wife..:-) And, two, you are indeed right - It is apparently a new edition, with the first published in 2001. Best 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 Tim Atherton Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:10 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - War photographers and SPEAKING OF WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS > What's fascinating is that about a year or so ago he had said he > wasn't ever going to war again, and was devoting the rest of his > photographic days to shooting his garden and other pastoral scenes. > (And some of those images are in this book) But then came the Bushing > of Iraq, and word was McCullin had gone back to war, with black and > white film. I think he spent time with the Kurds, who he had photographed before. I heard from someone who had breakfast with him a few times in Iraq that he felt like he couldn't come back with the sort of images he had done from previous wars. He also apparently felt he was getting a bit old to get in the middle of things.... he's got to be what 68? 70? (and on his third wife - Marilyn Bridges and has a new child...) tim PS - I think that book is a re-print/new edition. - -- 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