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Subject: [Leica] An M9 or Robert Frank's Contact Sheets?
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:50:40 -0800
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Buy a magnifying glass and save $7400 :-)

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:42 PM, John Beeching <johnbeeching at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear John,
>
> I've got "Looking In" and the contacts a fine for me.  A great book,
> heartily recommended.
>
> Yours,
>
> John
>
> On 11 March 2010 17:27, John Edwin Mason <profmason at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Sorta on-topic, since Robert Frank used a Leica.
> >
> > Limited editon Japanese publisher Kazuhiko Motomura has just released a
> > book that consists solely of Frank's contact sheets from his legendary
> book,
> > The Americans.
> >
> > The sheets have been enlarged so that each frame is about 2x3.  That's,
> > what, about double normal size?
> >
> > Price?  1,500 bucks.
> >
> > But, wait, there's more.
> >
> > To qualify to buy the book, you have to agree to all of Motomura's
> previous
> > publications, which would total about 7,500 dollars.
> >
> > More info at 5B4:
> >
> > http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/03/robert-frank-81-contact-sheets.html
> >
> > BTW, you can also see the contact sheets Sarah Greenough's Looking In,
> > which will only set you back 50 dollars at Amazon.  (You'll want to
> budget
> > for a magnifying glass, however.  The contact sheets are normal size.)
> >
> > --John
> >
> > ******************************
> > John Edwin Mason, Photography:
> > http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com
> > Charlottesville and Cape Town
> >
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>
>
>
> --
> John Beeching
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>
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In reply to: Message from profmason at yahoo.com (John Edwin Mason) ([Leica] An M9 or Robert Frank's Contact Sheets?)
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