Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can only endorse what Dr Ted has said. I just got mine direct from Professor Lluis! Some guy called Grant wrote the introduction. A very fine work and Blurb has made a great job of the BW reproduction too. Cheers Geoff *This mail constructed from all Australian carbon taxed electrons.* *The world's only economy wide economic vandalism for no climate change effect.* On 16 July 2011 15:36, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > INDIGNATS........ the book arrived today! WOW!!!!!!!!!!! > > May I suggest if you consider yourself a photographer who enjoys > interesting photography shot by others........... BUY THIS BOOK WITHOUT > QUESTION! > > Some of you know I have a personal library of many hundreds of photography > related books, a hobby of mine. I think the oldest dating back to 1910, > title " The Romance of Modern Photography." Hardly call it "modern by > today's standards." Extremely interesting! But that isn't what this post is > about! > > Lluis Ripoll's book "INDIGNATS" held my attention today while I went front > to back again and again at least 6 or 7 times! Maybe 8, but it's so well > assembled, the photography as street photography is classic of the best > with > the greats! Yes you will see some from the LUG gallery, but who cares. As > this is as spell binding as a collection as you turn page after page. > Street > photography as good as it gets. > > You're not buying a book made up of images by Cartier Bresson that you've > seen in a previous dozen books or more. We've seen them so often during the > past 70 or more years we've memorized his work, we've seen it so often. > Damn > near "boring!!!!" Jeeeeeeshhhh don't get up set as I've been looking at his > photography since 1949! Lluis is all brand new! :-) Actually the new kid on > the block! > > INDIGNATS? A beautifully printed quality of B&W as B&W should look! I'd > say the best of the BLURB publications I've seen. That's the technical > stuff. It's the photography, page after page of split second reactions > capturing life's passing moments. Quite amazing indeed. > > So ladies and gentlemen if you like photography books, after all why > wouldn't you, we are photographers after all. Get a copy of Lluis's > "INDIGNATS" as it's one of those special photo books; > A: you can't put it down! > B: You'll look through it many times, amazed each time. And he's one of our > Crew! Thank you all. > > Cheers, > Dr. ted :-) > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >