Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I've just been browsing through the photography section of a local bookshop. >A new range of small, but well printed, books of photography have appeared. >They are called '55s' because they each feature 55 pictures with extended >captions. > >There are 20 titles in the first bunch: >[snip, but see below] I just picked up two of these books in S.F. the other day. They are great, pocketable books at a fantastic price. Decent reproductions, fine commentary. All in all, a promising new series of photography books. And thanks for posting the list of photographers - I asked for such a list at the bookstore of the Friends of Photography, but they had none. Now I know what to look for. Guy >Eugene Atget >Mathew Brady >Wynn Bullock >Julia Margaret Cameron >Joan Fontcuberta >David Goldblatt >Nan Goldin >Graciela Iturbide >Andre Kertesz >Dorothea Lange >Mary Ellen Mark >Joel Meyerowitz >Boris Mikhailov >Lisette Model >Laszlo Moholy-Nage >Eadweard Muybridge >Eugene Richards >W Eugene Smith >Shomei Tomatsu >Joel-Peter Witkin > >There seems to be a good proportion of women, and 15% are guys called >Eugene. >Be careful with that axe Eugene. > >A lot more are promised. >23.74% will be women called Eugenie. >Careless Eugene! > >Each costs UKP 4.95, USD 7.95, CND 11.95 etc. > >I am not at all connected with the publishers or any bookshop - I just think >that this seems like a worthy attempt to publish interesting stuff to a wide >readership. > >Regards, >Malcolm > >Non-party-political broadcast on behalf of A Worker's Collective, Many of >Whom Have Anarchist Leanings (for viewers in the UK, Bologna and Spitzbergen >only) >Just don't vote, OK?