Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Fay Godwin?
From: John Brownlow <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:06:27 +0000

on 10/2/00 4:32 pm, Mike Gil at pasuno@hotmail.com wrote:

> I just bought a book called Land with photographs by Fay Godwin.  I was
> stunned by the exquisite b&w photographs, they have to be some of the most
> powerfull landscape images I've ever seen.  Pardon my ignorange if she is
> well known but I dont know how she is.  According to the biography she
> should be 70 years old by now and has published over 10 books, that was in
> 1985.  Can some one out there shed more light on this person, is she still
> alive, other books since then, accomplishments & techniques.
> 
> She has to be one of the greats and if not a she has been hiding from us at
> least in the States.

Fay is British, and pretty well known over here. I think she's something to
do with the museum of film & photography up in Bradford, Yorkshire.

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John Brownlow

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