Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In true X files tradition I received this book today after ordering it a couple of days ago (great minds think alike etc...) together with Europeans by HCB. I've only skimmed through it at the moment, but the one thing that sticks in my mind is that he says that people complain that he prints his photographs too dark - his reply is that these are 'dark' events, how could he print them lighter and in effect make them look happier. Steve - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Martin Howard Sent: 02 February 2001 23:11 To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Has anyone read Shutterbabe yet? julianthomas.terra.es jotted down the following: >>> ack to Amazon, unchecked her book, and ordered the Don McCullin >> biography instead. >> >> M. >> > Now that is an amazing book. His landscape photography in B&W that he did back in England after his career as a war PJ are probably the most hauntingly beautiful I've seen. I'll that over the Red Filtered Zone III Sky school of landscape photography any day. M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | "The future isn't what it used to be." email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- Louis Cyphre (Angel Heart) www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------