Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> This is a good new, thanks Gene > Saludos Luis > > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org] En nombre de > grduprey@mchsi.com > Enviado el: s?bado, 08 de septiembre de 2007 21:05 > Para: Leica Users Group > Asunto: Re: [Leica] Question about FOM Images, LUG Yearbook, etc. > > Alastair checked into the MUG list the other day and did mention he was > working on the FOM2 book. He had just returned from his trip, so I suspect > he will be checking in here soon and tell us of his travels and projects. > > Gene > > -------------- Original message from "Jim Shulman" <jshul@comcast.net>: > -------------- > > >> Charles, >> >> The software to create a book of pictures and text is free for >> anyone--it's at www.blurb.com The only charge occurs when copies are > purchased. >> >> My suggestion is that you, Alistair, or another member of the group >> take on the project and create a FOM book from the images. I'd be >> happy to purchase a copy when finished! >> >> Best, >> Jim Shulman >> Bryn Mawr, PA >> >> >> I notice having done a search that the most recent edition of the Family of Man book they went back to the original photography and re made the plates and duotones and it looks much better now. I think I might just order one. Here's http://moma.org/research/archives/highlights/06_1955.html Looks like a bunch of 30x40s mounted on boards, no glass! Traveling exhibitions! Glass breaks! Dorothea Lange, Robert Capra, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jack Delano, Margaret Bourke-White, Esther Bubley, Bert Hardy, Edward Weston, Matthew Brady, Frank Scherschel, Wayne Miller, Eva Arnold, Irving Penn, Consuelo Kanaga, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bill Brandt, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Ben Shahn and Marion Palfi That's a hard act to follow! And our FOM2 done all with Leicas! I almost don't even like that! Mark William Rabiner Harlem, NY rabinergroup.com