Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/14

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Subject: Re: Ted Grant's Photos
From: ted grant <75501.3002@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 14 Jun 97 17:39:37 EDT

David Young wrote:

<<Regrettably, they don't identify who took each photo, though I presume Ted did
the shots in Roberd Held's Vancouver shop.>>>>>>

Hi Dave,

Yes that's one and the same. :)

The really regrettable part of that magazine is it went bankrupt early this year
primarily due to extremely poor management.

The magazine in question had won numerous awards for photojournalism and  NPPA
in the USA had awarded it a Gold medal recognition for the quality of the
magazine and the excellent photojournalism throughout the issues.

They had ranked it ahead of LIFE and added that it was equal to or better than
the early LIFE in it's hey day.

Too bad that it crashed, as it was giving Canadian photojournalists a place in
the sun for showing their work and what a diversified quality of photographers
exist in this country.

If you were pleased with that issue you should see some of the earlier copies as
the work and reproduction is quite incredible.

They also championed a return to B&W photojournalism in 6 to10 pages on some
spreads pertaining to one story. Alas it's gone the way of the dodo bird. :(

ted