[Leica] Leica Stories and the effect of photographs

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

That's what I call a GOOD Leica story!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 7:01 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> First I'd like to thank people for commenting on my photos, and secondly
> I'm looking forward to seeing the Yearbook which a FedEx text tells me
> is going to land at my door today. I don't know about the rest of you,
> but I'm a believer in deferred pleasure, so I didn't look at the pdf as
> I prefer to look at all your hard work on nice paper between two hard
> covers held in my hands.
>
> And speaking of books, I cook a fair bit now, especially since my wife
> got ill. I use many recipe books, with my own sometimes inept
> variations, but the book I had out yesterday was the 70s/80s best seller
> Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course which has a photo of the author
> holding an egg. Our copy of the book is from the early 80s as Smith had
> a cookery programme on the TV at the time. It was very popular and
> resulted in sales all around the english speaking world. The cover in
> its own way was pretty iconic with its implications of a captured quiet
> confidence. This is the cover
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Delia+Smith.jpg.html which
> was taken by a photographer called John Timbers.
>
> I looked him up to find he had died in 2006, but here is his obituary
> from the Guardian which has a small Leica story in it.
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/dec/15/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
>
> Douglas
> For those familiar with Rolling Stones' LP covers of yore, Let It Bleed
> features a cake made by Smith.
>
>
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