RE: [Leica] Other Sources for Help in finding a book?

["Stewart, Alistair" <AStewart@gigaweb.com>]

Tim,

thanks very much for the suggestion, I'm still searching.

regards

Alistair

- -----Original Message-----
From: Tim Atherton [mailto:timphoto@nt.sympatico.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 11:41 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Other Sources for Help in finding a book?


Alistair,

Why don't you try e mailing or calling the folk at Photoeye - about the best
photography bookstore there is. Someone there may know.

www.photoeye.com

You could also try hunting through their online listing (and/or downloading
their SH books list?)

Tim A


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Stewart,
> Alistair
> Sent: November 9, 1999 3:26 PM
> To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Subject: [Leica] Other Sources for Help in finding a book?
>
>
> An additional thought:
>
> can anyone suggest other forums (fora?) where I could post this
> and stand a
> chance of getting the info on title/author?
>
> btw, I'm pretty certain it was 35mm, and it looked contemporary (late 80's
> to early 90's)
>
> thanks
>
> Alistait
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stewart, Alistair [mailto:AStewart@gigaweb.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 2:51 PM
> To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Subject: [Leica] Help in finding a book
>
>
> Team Lug,
>
> I would like to draw upon your collective knowledge to try and find a book
> about which I know very little. (!)
>
> I saw it on the bookshelves in B&N (photography section) soon
> after I moved
> to the USA in July '94. I'm guessing I would have seen it sometime in '95.
> Could be a year either side.
>
> Here goes. It's (all? mostly?) B&W, probably by a young German
> photographer,
> and as I recall, is almost a visual diary of parts of his life,
> friends/family, domestic settings, etc - but the images were not
> cluttered.
> The part that I'm interested in, and the only real clue that I
> can offer, is
> a discontinuous series of photos of his wife, culminating in a final full
> length photo, almost full frontal, of her looking very thin,
> standing naked
> in a doorway in their house.  She is somewhere in her 20's or 30's. It is
> the last (if I remember right) photo that is shown of her. Soon
> after it was
> taken, she committed suicide.
>
> So that's all I can remember. Anyone out there recognize it?
>
> thanks
>
> Alistair
>