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Subject: [Leica] James Nachtwey's "Inferno"
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Thu Mar 30 04:48:04 2006

Huh? There was a forward and intro? ;-)

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of R.
Clayton McKee
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:13 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] James Nachtwey's "Inferno"


If you take the time to read the intro and forewords (yeah, right) he 
mentions that the size is a deliberate decision... to make the book 
so large it had an actual physical presence and would be hard to 
ignore or NOT notice.

Like looking at ANY of Salgado's work, or for that matter Magnum 
_Stories_, I can only look at it for a few minutes at a stretch 
before I'm just brain dead and have to put it down and decompress for 
a bit.

At the moment my copy lives at my mother's place in Fort Worth, safe 
out of the reach of passing hurricanes.

It'll come home on the next ferry run.



On 29 Mar 2006 at 21:45, B. D. Colen wrote:

> It's work of astounding quality, but I find the book overwhelming - 
> many of
> the images are too big to be viewed as close as they must be in a book,
and 
> there are just too many of them for a single book. 
--


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Photojournalist                               rcmckee@rcmckee.com
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