Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree with everything George has said in this and other posts on this topics. Furthermore, today I received my copy of Ted's book. Now, in my collection I have lots of traditionally-published books of photographs by the gods we worship here--HCB, Brassai, Kertesz and so on. I can only say that Ted's new book is fully on par with those in terms of content, and surpasses them in terms of the quality of the production. Twenty years ago, traditional publishing houses were indispensable to artists like Ted. There was simply no other way to get a book printed and distributed unless you were independently wealthy. Today the market has been disintermediated, to use and expression from economics. Anybody with a computer, a bit of time, and good content (most important of all!) can create a work of art and not have to worry about how s/he is going to get it into the hands of readers. I think it is wonderful. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On May 10, 2009, at 5:27 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > As Nathan clearly stated: > Authorship belongs to the creator of the content, not the publishing > house. > Do prestigious publishers exist? Of course. > Have important, limited edition works been self published? Of course. > <http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2007/07/the-book-as-object-books-and-bytes/ > > > > > If you're going to critique a book, critique it on the basis of the > content, quality of production, design, binding, etc.; > not on whether the publisher was "real" or "unreal." > > For someone who puts so much store (and rightfully so) in "prints;" > I find it a contradiction that you belittle > the efforts of an author to bind and distribute their work. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > On May 10, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> Of course I have no problem with including any book on your book >> list I just >> said your blurring the line calling people who do blurb books >> "authors". >> I think it does not service to the real authors on your list. >> And doesn't really compliment the self publishing people either as >> the whole >> thing becomes meaningless. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information