[Leica] Best recent books of Leica photography?

[Mark Rabiner]

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@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.
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