Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Ted, buenos dias amigo Thank you very much for your words, and to put me together with our good friend Steve, a great person and photographer I admire his wonderful sensitive work. I'm very happy that you liked my book and you gave me again a gret honor to have my book among your collection. I think I have already commented on the LUG, I like do books, is a good exercise and also it allows keep your word in a practical and cheap form to archive and look at it. Thank you my firend! cheers Lluis El 04/02/2012, a las 5:04, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> escribi?: > This day by post I received two books by LUG members I recently > ordered and I am in awe! > > Steve Barbour...... "but for the Grace of God...." > > Luis Ripoll.... "Perpignan pour l'Image " > > I am a book collector, well of photography books some that date back > to the early 1900's. And I have several other LUG books, all our > year productions and by individuals! The books by LUG members quite > often contain images we've seen on the screen over a period of months. > > However? In a book, you hold in your hands? Compared to once again > looking at the screen for the umpteen hundredth time that day? There > is no comparison! Here in book form you see details you miss on the > screen, the impact is far more meaningful! The eye of the > photographer is far more appreciated on the page than the everyday > screen thing! Yes the screen images look nice and quite often amazing. > > But just hold a real book in your hands and quietly study the > captured moments is far more meaningful! Revealing and captivating. > > Both of these photographers see similarly in their subject captured > moments! But their subjects are so different is what makes them such > powerful and emotionally meaningful books! And intimate > photographers of the captured moment. > > Oh lot's of people get off gurgling over the so called "Long gone > hero's" of everyday photography. The truth is? They were here 60 or > more years ago in a much simpler world than today. But there are > some today who pass them like a flash of lightening in the hustle > bustle of every today life! > > These two books will join the ranks of the greats of the past simply > because they deserve to be in that position. They illustrate the art > of observation of human kind. And the intimate emotional moments > rarely seen by so many of today's image making people with their > electronic capturing instruments. > > To Steve and Lluis my most heartfelt congratulations' on such > wonderful heart warming book productions! They are not a onetime > look and leave! These books command not just looking, they demand > looking at again and again as they become more fascinating each time > you turn the pages without the click of a mouse! > > Both deserve to be on your home book shelves to look at every once > and a while!! > > cheers, > Dr. ted > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information