Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/03

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Subject: [Leica] customer review, Steve Barbour's book
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu Apr 3 06:22:25 2008
References: <C41A56EE.2A410%pkolodny@fibertel.com.ar>

On Apr 3, 2008, at 5:42 AM, Pablo Kolodny wrote:
> Being all that I heard here about Steve's and others books too only  
> thing I
> have to comment is that shipping to Argentina is just prohibitive.
> Maybe I'd have to make them ship to a friend of mine somewhere else  
> and see
> what/when/how to forward those good books to me

and I will look into this here...


Steve


> or just wait until I can
> pick them up. Some day.
>
> Pablo
>
>
> hoppyman@bigpond.net.au wrote:
>
>> Fellow LUGgers, I've just received my copy of "I never wanted to be  
>> famous"
>> by Steve Barbour. I expected the mood of the pictures to be bleak  
>> given the
>> emotional subject matter. Instead I found them to be sensitive and  
>> even
>> uplifting photographs. I thought that the presentation was quite  
>> stark,
>> being all black pages and this tended to give me an impression that  
>> some
>> photos would benefit from a lighter scheme. However, that is entirely
>> personal taste. The reproduction of the (all black and white)  
>> photos is very
>> good and commendably neutral. My copy came from Switzerland. I  
>> think that
>> Steve has produced a very worthwhile book, filled with sensitive  
>> and high
>> quality photographs. His care and devotion to these children is very
>> apparent.
>>
>> I recommend this one highly for everyone's bookshelf.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Geoff
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Replies: Reply from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] customer review, Steve Barbour's book)
In reply to: Message from pkolodny at fibertel.com.ar (Pablo Kolodny) ([Leica] customer review, Steve Barbour's book)