Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Best photography books
From: "phong (Doan huu Phong)" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 18:37:39 -0500

Gosh B.D., you are ever so precise with book titles, witness
the extremely vague previous reference to Highways to a War.
;-)

All kidding aside, I am a great admirer of W. Eugene Smith
and he ranks among the greatest to me.  Photographically
I relate more to Sam Abell and Freeman Patterson or even
H. Cartier-Bresson, than Smith, or Sebastiao Salgado, or
Capa.  Don't ask me how; I wouldn't be able to verbalize it,
even though I think much about it.  Something about being
too close to the reality of human suffering.  Something about
the pictures you took in Somalia and showed at the Boston
LUG meet a few weeks ago.

I can pretend to emulate Abell, Patterson or Cartier-Bresson.
If I do the others, I wouldn't be able to sleep.

- - Phong

- -----Original Message-----
From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, November 29, 1998 4:51 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Best photography books


>Yes indeed - there are two terrific Eugene Smith books out there...one is
>from Aperture and about half the book is an extended essay/biography...This
>was apparently the catalogue that accompanied a massive Smith show that
>toured in the mid-late 80s. The second book has far more photos...I believe
>the second is called E. Eugene Smith, I'm not sure of the title of the
>first...the photos in both are amazing...lots of Pittsburgh stuff, and work
>from As Out My Window I Sometimes Gaze...plus the Country Doctor and
Midwife
>essays....