Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/04

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Books
From: "Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 12:27:31 -0700

Just got the Gene Smith book B.D. - well worth it!

Love the sound of that Capa book...

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of B. D. Colen
> Sent: November 4, 2001 10:52 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Books
> 
> 
> For anyone who's interested, there are several terrific new books from
> Phaidon -
> 
> Robert Capa - The Definitive Collection - 937! photos...
> I've only had a chance to glance through this, and the others I mention
> here, but this Capa collection makes me rethink Capa - in a positive way
> 
> Elliott Erwitt Snaps -
> More than 500 images, half of which haven't been published
> previously...If you think of Erwitt as simply someone who took funny
> photos of dogs and not funny photos of MM, definitely take a look at
> this one...
> 
> Vietnam, Inc. - The Philip Jones Griffiths classic reissued, with a
> forward by Noam Chomsky - okay, so skip the forward if you're not a
> Chomsky fan - :-) - and ignore the BS about how this book is what turned
> around public opinion on the Vietnam War - (Hello? Can you say 'nightly
> news?' Can you say 'Life Magazine?' Can you say 'body bags?') A classic
> none the less...
> 
> There are also a number of new titles in the Phaidon 55 series....
> 
> And, not from Phaidon - there is a new W. Eugene Smith book out -
> Paradise Street - a collection of the 200-and-some photos - our of
> 17,000 - which he considered the core of his Pittsburgh project.
> 
> B. D.
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