Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice post Mark! http://ammobooks.com/products/edward-weston-one-hundred-twenty-five-photogra phs Or http://tinyurl.com/nscdho5 When you click "add to cart" you find out its selling for only $250! The "author" is Steve Crist On this page is also a movie you can click on and see. I'm doing that now.... On 10/6/14 12:07 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > "Edward Weston: One Hundred Twenty-Five Photographs" I see on a table > upstairs in the photo section of the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan just > under Union Square. > Its a classy white square book in a slipcase not too big not too small. > Was selling for 75 bucks and would be worth it. > It's now selling for $20.... a no brainer as far as I go. I'm getting it > this week. They said they had more in the back room or I'd not have left > with out it a few days ago. After they said there was a back room. > Today maybe I'm going there and grabbing it. > Gorgeously printed like you'd hope contact prints from 8x10 negs would be. > They'd be slight reductions not enlargements > And a few images of his I'd not recalled seeing. > Like a portrait of his friend Ansel Adams which is reminiscent of > Feininger's most famous shot of a guy with a Leica on his face. > Only Ansel's camera is his Contax with the second eye finder. And it was > done before Feininger's not after. > He'd just got the camera that day the Contax people gave it too him making > him a Contax guy over a Leica guy. > https://www.flickr.com/photos/32357038 at N08/8326852329/ > > "Good artists copy, great artists steal." > Pablo Picasso > > There actually is a shot he AA got with it you'll see in his books. Of > Stieglitz no less. > > > On 10/5/14 8:53 PM, "Kyle Cassidy" <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thoughts on photobooks? Specifically books from the past 10 years or so. >> >> Sent from my iPhone plz excuse the typoss keyb0ard is reaLly small. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/