[Leica] The Camera

[Mark Rabiner]

I read that book, THE CAMERA every day. Also:
500 Cameras: 170 Years of Photographic Innovation
 is another indispensible book also by Todd Gustavson, George Eastman House.
It turns out you really can gather a knowledge of the history of photography
by looking at cameras if the book is written by Todd Gustavson.
I think he stands alone amongst photo historians.
He knows the true context of the things he curates.


On 12/27/14 7:59 PM, "Gene duprey" <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:

> I have had a copy of this book for a couple of years now and have found it
> quite informative.  Also nice illustrations.
> 
> gene
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Zeitlin via LUG" <lug at leica-users.org>
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 2:15:36 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: [Leica] The Camera
> 
> When I opened my holiday presents I discovered that I received a wonderful
> gift. It was a book,"The Camera - A history of photography from Daguerrotype
> to Digital" by Todd Gustavson, technical curator of the George Eastman museum.
> It contains large glossy photographs of just about every camera from Fox
> Talbot's camera obscura to the Leica M8 plus many historic photographs taken
> by them. The book is a massive tome of 360 heavy glossy pages, 12" x 10" in
> size, guaranteed to challenge any coffee table. I was very impressed with the
> book and was happy to identify some of the many cameras pictured that I had
> owned at one time or another..
> My grand daughter later confessed that she had bought the book at Barnes and
> Noble at the sale price of $14.95 USD. A real bargain!. B&N may still have
> copies at the sale price. If any of you want a copy it is ISBN
> 978-1-4351-5324-0.
> I highly recommend it.
> 
> 
> Larry Z
> 
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