Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LUG - Has anybody gotten the book Photo Nomad by David Douglas Duncan? I ordered it from Amazon and it came yesterday. It's a thick, heavy book - 464 pages - mostly photos. I really expected more text. The text that is there is almost stream-of-consciousness, very brief and cryptic. Leica's are mentioned two or three times and there is a photo of his M3's. The main photo stories are about his kidnapped dog, his deceased German Shepherd, Pablo Picasso and other celebrities, and DDD's notorious meeting with and photographs of HCB. There are some fabulous photos, but I was disappointed in the lack of substance in the descriptions of the photos and the experience of taking them. He could have used a good editor with the photos. One-fourth as many would have been 4x more effective. Anybody agree or disagree? Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com