Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Simon, Thank you so much for the plug! So very much appreciated, I can't tell you how much it made my weekend. I was so fearful that I'd get buckets of shit dumped on me for trying to sell something that wasn't Leica gear, I damn near didn't post. But you, Jim Brick, Harrison, Paul and Eric sure made up for the fears with the kind and generous comments. The folks on the LUG, most of them, have no idea the commitment that goes into a project of this kind. Not to mention they'd probably die, to learn that the publisher owed me $40,000 in collected royalties, and before they paid me, put themselves into receivership! I never collected a penny for my ten year personal project! The books I now have to sell, I had to buy from the receiver! Kind of ironical. Not only did I do all the photography over a ten year period, I had to buy the remaining copies to try and make some of the expenses back. What the hell! The new book is now in the hands of a very competent agent who will make sure I don't get ripped off again. There has been a favourable order response, much to you lads pumping it for me. And I thank you so very much from the bottom of my heart. Kindest regards, ted >I received my copy of Ted's book a couple of days ago - and it has been an >utter pleasure to look through it again and again. Long, deeply involved >observational work such as Ted managed to do in the hospital is, as far as >I am concerned, one of the most wonderful and worthwhile things you can do >with a camera. Documentary films about subjects like this are very >difficult to make well, and even if you end up with an hour of edited film, >that projected or broadcast hour is so brief, so quickly over. By >contrast, books such as Ted's repay many, many viewings and provide a depth >of insight that documentary film, with its restless movement and its >obligations towards narrative and structure, struggles to attain. > >I thought the book was astonishing value at its original price - it is >BEAUTIFULLY produced. So I'm ordering a further two copies - it will make >a wonderful Christmas present - particularly to anyone interested in >photography or medicine. > >Simon, >London. Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant